Citation

Wilke S, Majumdar A, Ochieng WY. J. Saf. Res. 2015; 53: 63-75.

Affiliation

Imperial College London, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Centre for Transport Studies, South Kensington Campus, Skempton Building, SW72AZ London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: w.ochieng@imperial.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsr.2015.03.006

PMID

25933999

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Airport surface safety and in particular runway and taxiway safety is acknowledged globally as one of aviation's greatest challenges. To improve this key area of aviation safety, it is necessary to identify and understand the causal and contributing factors on safety occurrences. While the contribution of human factors, operations, and procedures has been researched extensively, the impact of the airport and its associated characteristics itself has received little or no attention.

METHOD: This paper introduces a novel methodology for risk and hazard assessment of airport surface operations, and models the relationships between airport characteristics, and (a) the rate of occurrences, (b) the severity of occurrences, and (c) the causal factors underlying occurrences.

RESULTS: The results show for the first time how the characteristics of airports, and in particular its infrastructure and operations, influence the safety of surface operations.

Language: en