The introduction of ADS-B, a satellite-based aircraft tracking technology, and the increasing
installation of ADS-B receiver stations around the globe eases the tracking of aircraft …

Dresden presents its ongoing effort to establish a safety metric for normative air traffic
operations. First, current safety assessment methodology is analyzed. We then present our …

As part of their SMS, aviation service providers are required to develop and maintain the
means to verify the safety performance of their organisation and to validate the effectiveness …

The link between airspace and air traffic com-plexity and controller workload has been of
high interest since decades, since a negative correlation is postulated between workload …

This paper presents an initial analysis of proximity and dynamicity aspects between arrival
flights at four major European airports representative of different types of operations. The …

This paper presents an analysis of proximity and dynamicity aspects between arrival flights
at five major European airports representative of different types of operations. The analysis …

Aviation safety is continuously improving. However, our current period of growth demands
further efforts to maintain these continuous improvements in absolute safety levels. One of …

For five decades complex socio-technical systems have been studied in an attempt to
understand and prevent the occurrence of accidents. In this paper, the authors define a …