TY - GEN
T1 - Simulating the risks from aircraft debris to the public on the ground
AU - Prouzeau, Arnaud
AU - Johnson, Chris W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/9/3
Y1 - 2015/9/3
N2 - The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) identify an Airprox to be a situation in which, in the opinion of a pilot or air traffic services personnel, the distance between aircraft as well as their relative positions and speed have been such that the safety of the aircraft involved may have been compromised. These are relatively rare events but they must be reported and investigated in order to reduce future risks. Airprox investigations and similar studies into near-miss incidents focus on the risk to passengers and crew. They do not consider the impact of debris. This raises concerns when, for example, the Bijlmermeer crash led to the deaths of 39 people on the ground. This paper presents a system that was developed to simulate the risks from aircraft debris on ground-based infrastructures. The system was developed and validated with help from Airprox investigators. To this end, a User Centered Design process was applied; analysing the activities and needs of potential users from two European investigation agencies. The following pages present the key design decisions, provide insights into the development process and identify limitations with our existing system. The closing sections identify further applications of this approach and suggest areas for further work.
AB - The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) identify an Airprox to be a situation in which, in the opinion of a pilot or air traffic services personnel, the distance between aircraft as well as their relative positions and speed have been such that the safety of the aircraft involved may have been compromised. These are relatively rare events but they must be reported and investigated in order to reduce future risks. Airprox investigations and similar studies into near-miss incidents focus on the risk to passengers and crew. They do not consider the impact of debris. This raises concerns when, for example, the Bijlmermeer crash led to the deaths of 39 people on the ground. This paper presents a system that was developed to simulate the risks from aircraft debris on ground-based infrastructures. The system was developed and validated with help from Airprox investigators. To this end, a User Centered Design process was applied; analysing the activities and needs of potential users from two European investigation agencies. The following pages present the key design decisions, provide insights into the development process and identify limitations with our existing system. The closing sections identify further applications of this approach and suggest areas for further work.
KW - Air traffic management.
KW - Airprox
KW - Aviation safety
KW - Human computer interaction
KW - Human factors
KW - Risk assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84973390046&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2899361.2899372
DO - 10.1145/2899361.2899372
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of ATACCS 2015 - 5th International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems
SP - 105
EP - 114
BT - Proceedings of ATACCS 2015 - 5th International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems
A2 - Johnson, Chris
A2 - Martinie, Celia
A2 - Palanque, Philippe
A2 - Feuerle, Thomas
A2 - Saez, Francisco Javier
A2 - Pasquini, Alberto
A2 - Rechea, Cristina Gonzalez
A2 - Feary, Michael
A2 - van Leeuwen, Pim
A2 - Winckler, Marco
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 5th International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems, ATACCS 2015
Y2 - 30 September 2015 through 2 October 2015
ER -