Safety and Human performance

Air Traffic Management

17 April 2025

Booklet: Reseach and development solutions for Air Traffic Management

Let’s realise competitive and sustainable aviation The challenge for civil aviation operators is to achieve competitive and sustainable aviation. The growing demand to increase efficiency, sustainability, safety and security, enhance resilience and reduce costs requires innovative solutions. That is why Royal NLR focuses its innovative R&D and solutions within the Air Traffic Management domain on […]
Safety and Human performance

28 March 2025

Safety Culture

In the aviation industry, achieving exceptional safety standards is paramount. At NLR, we understand that a strong safety culture is the foundation upon which safety excellence is built. Our seven-step safety culture improvement approach is designed to help organisations like yours become number one in safety by identifying and reinforcing weak areas, while leveraging existing […]
Safety and Human performance

25 February 2025

Accident and incident investigation

NLR can provide expert support during accident or incident investigations, offering specialist advice and analysis of critical data such as flight or radar records. Our team can also delve into the details of flight performance and dynamics, as well as investigate systems, components, materials, or structures through testing and analysis. This helps to uncover the […]
Safety and Human performance

25 February 2025

Safety performance indicators

Safety performance indicators are used to assess operational safety performance through monitoring. A safety performance indicator is defined in the ICAO Safety Management Manual as a measure (or metric) used to express the level of safety performance achieved in a system. They are generally expressed in terms of the frequency of occurrences of some event […]
Safety and Human performance

25 February 2025

Psychophysiological measurements and analysis

NLR can provide an objective assessment of aerospace operators, including air traffic controllers, pilots, and other professionals, evaluating their mental workload, stress levels, fatigue, attention, and alertness, as well as their activity levels, to gain a comprehensive understanding of their performance and well-being. NLR can support you with:
NLR X-Lab: frontrunner in augmented reality in MRO aerospace
Safety and Human performance

25 February 2025

Human machine interface design

NLR can support the development and optimisation of human machine interfaces (HMIs) for various aerospace applications, including flight instruments, dynamic traffic signs, air traffic controller support tools, and virtual- or augmented reality based training tools. Whether it’s designing a new HMI, evaluating an existing one, or updating and extending current systems, NLR can help integrate […]
Advanced Cockpit for Reduction of StreSs and workload (ACROSS)
Safety and Human performance

25 February 2025

Workload assessments

NLR can help assess the workload of aerospace operators, including air traffic controllers, pilots, and other professionals, providing valuable insights into operator overload or underload. By combining objective and subjective data, we can accurately express workload levels, enabling informed decisions to optimise operator performance and safety. NLR can support you with:
Safety and Human performance

25 February 2025

Attention and distraction

Operators of complex systems face the challenge of processing multiple sources of information in the right order. NLR can help you gain insight into the factors affecting your operators’ performance, such as distraction, attention, and strategy application. We can also help you understand how sub-optimal Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) may lead to high visual workload, […]
Safety and Human performance

24 February 2025

Air operations safety

Ensuring the safety of aviation operations is a complex task that requires careful consideration of various factors. NLR can help you assess the impact of changes in operations or future Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts on safety, as well as provide evidence that safety will not be compromised even when regulatory compliance is not feasible. […]