Safety
For decades, air transportation has been one of the safest modes of transportation globally. Statistically, one accident occurs in 10 million departures worldwide. Nevertheless, the “Single European Sky” project of the European Union aims to decrease the rate of accidents by a factor of 10 despite continuous growth. As a result, ensuring safety remains an ongoing challenge for the future. This requires a more objective approach to safety assessment involving quantitative techniques to estimate risks, enhancing expert risk assessments.
Within the scope of this main research field, the long-term efforts of the Chair focus on the development of quantitative, simulation-based risk analysis methods to validate navigation processes in the complex terminal manoeuvring area (TMA). Along those lines, a major challenge is the prediction and modelling of such rare safety events.
Current Research Projects
Historic Research Projects
- S-AMAN: Integrating Safety Metrics into the Arrival Capacity Management of large Aerodromes
- 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
- 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
- S3: Security from Seat to Seat
- DFG Safety I: Quantitative, simulation-based risk assessment
- DFG Safety II: Combined micro and macroscopic risk assessment