A framework of indicators for the potential influence of Air Navigation Services on air traffic safety in Europe

2008 ◽  
Vol 222 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
H H de Jong ◽  
F Preti ◽  
G W H van Es
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Air Navigation Services

This paper outlines a proposal for a framework of indicators developed with the aim to improve European safety performance monitoring of Air Navigation Services. The extension of scope from the usual choice of Air Traffic Management to Air Navigation Services has been made to address the complication that Air Traffic Management is a different service from Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance, but intimately connected with it. The framework considers the potential influence of Air Navigation Services on air traffic safety, and it uses accidents, their causal/contributing factors, and incidents related to these services as source data for the indicators. Those occurrence categories are considered for which Air Navigation Services have the potential to improve risk. This approach is independent of the notion of a service's contribution to occurrences, which is normally used, but which suffers from a considerable degree of subjectivity. In the data flows from air traffic operations to safety performance indicators, weak links are human incident reporting, varying proportions of incidents actually investigated sufficiently well plus different ways to perform the investigations, and differences in interpretation in providing overviews of the resulting safety data on the level of States. In view of these weaknesses, conditions are developed to prevent data of insufficient quality from being used. The paper mentions a number of aspects to consider when using the indicators. Before drawing conclusions, statistical significance and the existence of reporting bias need to be assessed. The paper finishes with a discussion of the relation of the framework with existing targets and indicates how the framework could support deriving appropriate targets and performance of safety assessments.

Overall safety performance of the air traffic management system: Indicators and analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 44-45 ◽  
pp. 65-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Di Gravio ◽  
Maurizio Mancini ◽  
Riccardo Patriarca ◽  
Francesco Costantino
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Traffic Management System

THE SEARCH FOR AN OPTIMAL FORM OF CIVIL-MILITARY COOPERATION IN THE AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN POLAND. NEW CHALLENGES – NEW SOLUTIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Telesfor Marek MARKIEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Military Cooperation ◽  
Optimal Form ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Air Navigation Services ◽  
National Defence

The article contains an overview of the European Union’s legal regulations and provisions of the national aviation law applying to civil and military cooperation and coordination in managing air traffic, as well as operational agreements between the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency and organisational units of the Ministry of National Defence. The author conducts an analysis of the standards applicable in this scope, points out the practical consequences of certain legal instruments that are in force and suggests solutions that may contribute to improvement of the existing legal and organisational mechanisms of cooperation in the area of studies in question.

The Adoption of Network-Centric Data Sharing in Air Traffic Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-151
Author(s):  
Karel Joris Bert Lootens ◽  
Marina Efthymiou
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Air Navigation Services ◽  
Aviation Network ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
Insight Into

Network-centric sharing of data between all Air Traffic Management (ATM) stakeholders can improve the aviation network substantially. The System Wide Information Management (SWIM) platform is a platform for the open sharing of all information between aircraft operators, airports, air navigation services providers (ANSPs), and meteorology services, but has struggled to find a following. This article aims to identify the potential reasons for the slow adoption of the SWIM platform, and to investigate how to better communicate its potential. To gain insight into the drivers for each of the stakeholders, a series of semi-structured interviews was conducted with airlines, airports and ANSPs. Moreover, an Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) initiative at the airport in Dublin was included as a case study. Recommendations are provided on how to address the results from a governance point of view.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF AIRSPACE ORGANIZATION CONSIDERING AIR TRAFFIC FLOWS

Transport ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaidotas Kondroška ◽  
Jonas Stankūnas
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Traffic Management System ◽  
Air Navigation Services

Aviation is one of the most rapidly developing types of transport playing a crucial role in the modern world. Aviation has a sensitive response to any economic or social changes and painful aviation catastrophes. In spite of increasing the flows of passengers and flights, for certain reasons, the aviation system does not always satisfy the expectations of the airspace users in the sense of efficiency. The effectiveness of air transport operations is determined by both a reduction in the costs of every airspace user and the efficiency of the air traffic management system. Airspace organization performed by the air traffic management system, i.e. its adaptation to the performance of appropriate air navigation services, largely defines the efficiency of these services. Due to various reasons, presently, the area of airspace and airspace management has remained one of the largest and incompletely used aviation resources. Beside other appropriate means, the organization of air traffic management and airspace establishes flight conditions and determines the efficiency of flight trajectories and regularity. A comparison of air traffic management systems of different regions identifies the obstacles that do not allow ensuring the maximum results of flight efficiency in any place. One of the main reasons is the high fragmentation of the specified regions that mostly coincide with the state borders. The above reasons show that in order to efficiently develop aviation, the successful development of that to the extent of one country is not enough. Thus, the best results will only be reached solving the existing problems and intended challenges to the extent of a few countries – up to the extent of the whole region. The aim of research is to define a methodology allowing the organization of regional airspace according to the flows of air traffic and subsequently enabling to solve flight efficiency problems related to air traffic management. For space evaluation, the paper suggests using rectangular grids the application of which makes possible dividing the researched space more easily and exactly. Considering the examples of air traffic management systems demonstrating the best results of efficiency, it can be exactly assumed about the number of possible airspace blocks complying with the flows of flights in the analyzed airspace. In case, a preliminary number of the wanted clusters is known, it is purposeful to apply the method of the cluster analysis of K-means with necessary limitations to the formed building airspace blocks and to determine the optimum version taking into account the analyzed ones. The paper suggests representing points having appropriate weighted coefficients during the stage of clustering rather than using grid cells. The optimization of the obtained airspace blocks is necessary in case the formed blocks do not properly comply with the aims raised. The application of the methodology suggested in the paper enables dividing the airspace of a big territory into airspace blocks according to the flows of flights independent from the air way network, flight intensity and the collocation of the airspace elements of a special purpose.

Crisis management in the European Air Traffic Management Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Telesfor Marek Markiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Review Analysis ◽  
Network Manager ◽  
Air Navigation Services

The article presents the genesis and evolution of Network Manager (NM) activities in terms of responding to disturbances and crisis situations and mitigating their effects on the European air traffic management network. The objective of these activities, carried out in coordination with the operational stakeholders and other relevant stakeholders, is to ensure maximum continuity and safety of air navigation services for aircraft operators and airports. The review, analysis and evaluation of how to respond to extraordinary and unforeseen events with a negative impact on the functioning of the air transport sector in Europe covers the period 2010-2018.

The Adoption of Network-Centric Data Sharing in Air Traffic Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-69
Author(s):  
Karel Joris Bert Lootens ◽  
Marina Efthymiou
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Air Navigation Services ◽  
Aviation Network ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
Insight Into

Network-centric sharing of data between all Air Traffic Management (ATM) stakeholders can improve the aviation network substantially. The System Wide Information Management (SWIM) platform is a platform for the open sharing of all information between aircraft operators, airports, air navigation services providers (ANSPs), and meteorology services, but has struggled to find a following. This article aims to identify the potential reasons for the slow adoption of the SWIM platform, and to investigate how to better communicate its potential. To gain insight into the drivers for each of the stakeholders, a series of semi-structured interviews was conducted with airlines, airports and ANSPs. Moreover, an Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) initiative at the airport in Dublin was included as a case study. Recommendations are provided on how to address the results from a governance point of view.

Consistent and up-to-date aviation safety targets

2004 ◽  
Vol 108 (1085) ◽  
pp. 345-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Brooker
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Considerable Improvement ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Loosely Coupled

AbstractThere is a need for consistency between aviation safety targets – target levels of safety (TLS). Consistent ‘risk philosophy’ ensures that resources can be allocated in areas where they will be most beneficial in reducing the number of potential accidents and fatalities. Many existing aviation targets were devised decades ago, have not been brought up to date to take account of the considerable improvement in the sector’s safety performance, and are not targeted at some specific future year. It appears feasible to construct consistent and up-to-date sets of TLSs covering the full range of aviation needs, in particular for air traffic management. However, this requires significant, more demanding, changes to some TLS values. One caveat to note is that the safety of ‘loosely coupled’ aviation systems may be better described and managed by the Health and Safety Executive version of risk assessment rather than by a TLS approach.

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