Many airports struggle to identify the actual risk levels and the appropriate mitigations against the rise of runway incursion. Runway incursions involve the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take-off of aircraft. Runway incursions have sometimes led to serious accidents with significant loss of life. Although they are not a new problem, with increasing air traffic, runway incursions have been on the rise. There are many causes related to runway incursions making it hard to quickly identify the risk levels and define mitigating measures.
NLR can support you with:
- Identifying airports with higher vulnerability to runway incursions due to specific characteristics
- Using a taxonomy-based model to make key risk contributors visible
- Selecting a set of risk factors that represent the most important determinants of runway incursion risk
- Assigning weights to risk factors based on their relative importance
- Developing a set of risk reduction factors
- Analysing past runway incursions at your airport to quickly assess its risk level
- Providing tailored mitigating measures to effectively reduce runway incursion risk at your airport
- Quantification of the improvement in safety of mitigating measures such as runway incursion alerting systems, runway status lights, etc.
