Safety
For decades, the air transportation belongs to the safest carriers in the world despite of its constant growth. Statistically one accident occurs in a 10 million departures worldwide. Nevertheless during the “Single European Sky”-project the European Union aims to decrease the rate of accidents about a factor of 10 despite the expected traffic triplication and two-digit rates of increase in high density areas until 2020. As a result, the unlimited guarantee of safety remains a continuous challenge in the future. This however requires a more objective approach to safety assessment involving quantitative techniques by means of which it is possible to estimate risks and to make them comparable in contrast to expert driven risk assessments.
Within the scope of this main research field, the longtime efforts of the Chair focus on the development of quantitative, simulation-based risk analysis methods in order to validate navigation processes in the complex terminal manoeuvring area (TMA) subject to inherent risks. Along those lines, a major challenge is the prediction and the modelling of such rare safety events.
The implementation of a safety culture at each participant of the air transportation system within the legal framework of a Safety Management System (SMS) gives rise to the high quality standard in air transportation. Especially for air carriers the Chair developed suitable performance indicators for the assessment of safety relevant processes.
Current Research Projects
- S-AMAN: Integrating Safety Metrics into the Arrival Capacity Management of large Aerodromes
- OBSERVATOR: Development of a digital twin for low-sensor, high-load aircraft components in the context of predictive maintenance: diagnosis and prediction of component stress due to ground operations
Historic Research Projects
- LiDAR II: Safe apron operation through automated hazard detection using a (weather-) robust LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) -object recognition system
- FUTURE: Controller assistant tool for optimal spacing along the final approach
- CRM: Collision Risk Modelling Capability for Independent Parallel Approaches
- Airline SMS: Methodological determination of Safety Performance Indicators
- CAATS: Cooperative Approach to Air Traffic Services
- ATCC: Airport Traffic Control Center - Supporting tower visibility under crucial conditions
- INTECO: Safety analysis for innovative cockpit-displays in helicopters
- K-ATM: Cooperative Air Traffic Management
- S3: Security from Seat to Seat
- DFG Safety I: Quantitative, simulation-based risk assessment
- DFG Safety II: Combined micro and macroscopic risk assessment