Transcript MITRE/CAASD Overview - Flight Safety Foundation

The Role of Data Sharing in
Improving Global Safety
Hassan Shahidi - MITRE
Flight Safety Foundation
IASS
October 31, 2013
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The Time is Right
• SMS rising
• Precursors to
accidents / incidents
• Risk reduction &
prevention
• Data mining / analysis
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Framework for Safety Data Sharing
Voluntary and
non-punitive
Data driven and
analytical
Safety
Data
Sharing
Causal Factors
Collaborative and
voluntary adoption of
solutions and best
practices
Safety
Solutions
Measuring
Safety
Improvements
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Benchmarks and
Metrics
Key Aviation Safety
Data Elements
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Digital Aircraft Data:
FOQA and FDM
• Passive acquisition and
archiving of aircraft
operations
• Hundreds of flight
parameters
• Objective
measurements
• Recording of
exceedances and
atypicalities
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Voluntary Safety Reports
Air Traffic Controllers
Maintenance Technicians
Pilots
Flight Attendants
Dispatch
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Airport Safety Data
• Ramp incidents
data
• Runway/taxiway
closures and
modifications
• Surface conditions
• Airport elevation
Data
• Obstacle data
• Terrain information
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Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP)
Operational Data
• Emerging power of
operational data derived
from air traffic control
systems
• Airspace and procedure
data
• Radar and Surveillance
data
• Weather and wind data
• Different domains: En
Route, Aerodrome,
Tower
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Fatigue and Biometric Data in
Aviation
• Need for Fatigue Risk
Management best
practices
• Need to develop metrics
and measure FRM
• Need to integrate FRM
Pilot
into Safety Management
Air Traffic Controllers
Systems
Maintenance
technicians
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Emerging Opportunity:
Mining of Air-Ground Voice Data
Automatic Speech
Processing
Transcriptions, Metadata
Semantic Tags, Audio
Fusion with
Flight Data
Retrieval
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By Flight
By Sector
By Clearance
By Phraseology
e.g. UAL328
e.g. ZID 88
e.g. ↓FL240
e.g. Line up and Wait
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Putting It All Together!
Getting to Causal Factors
Risk of
Unstable
Runway Approaches
Excursions
FDM and
FOQA
Missed
Approaches
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Loss of
Control
TCAS and
TAWS
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Voluntary
Safety
Reports
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ANSP Data
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Fatigue Data
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Airports and
Ramp Data
Voice Data
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Some Emerging Issues
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Improving Data Quality and Analysis
Capabilities
• Data acquisition,
archiving & management
• Cloud computing
• Data quality assurance
• Data mining capabilities
• Metrics development
• Robust algorithms
• Visualization techniques
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• Fostering Voluntary
safety reporting
• Data protection and
sharing
• Data fusion
• Data aggregation
• Risk reduction and
mitigation
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World-Wide Harmonization
• Cultural norms relating
to safety reporting
• Standards & guidance
• Taxonomy
• Scalability
• Reporting & analysis
Capabilities
• Outreach and
Education
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The Way Forward
How do we Get there from here?
• The time is right
• Facilitating World-wide
community information
sharing
• Need focus World-wide
community efforts in a
common direction
• Leveraging previous
and existing initiatives
Collaboration……Collaboration….Collaboration
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World-Wide Accident Rates
Accidents per Million Departures
Percent of all Departures
Europe
4.2
North America
2.8
Asia
2.7
30%
30%
5%
23%
Asia
1.9
Africa
4.8
Latin America
& Caribbean
3.8
12%
Source: ICAO (2013)
http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2013-Safety-Report_FINAL.pdf
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World’s Top Categories of
Accidents
Source: ICAO (2013)
http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2013-Safety-Report_FINAL.pdf
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