Runway safety at airports: A systematic approach for implementing ultra-safe options

B.M. Horowitz and J.R. Santos

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2009, vol. 15, issue 6, 357-362

Abstract: Enhancing airport runway safety is a difficult problem because runway accidents are rare events. Nonetheless, investments are being directed at improving safety for US airport ground traffic control systems. This paper shows that under these circumstances it is difficult to assess and measure the added safety offered by new replacement systems. We develop a framework for introducing and sequencing system improvements to provide greater assurances in enhancing safety. This framework shows how a new method can first be introduced as a secondary system, to test and verify its efficacy prior to its adoption as a primary system.

Keywords: Runway safety; Runway incursion; ADS-B data link; Reliability; Hierarchical Bayesian model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2009.04.006

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