 At the 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2010), NLR-ATSI scientist Jelmer Scholte received the Best Paper Award in the "Safety and Security" track for the paper "Study of SESAR implied safety validation needs".
ICRAT is a major biennial conference on air transport particularly focused on young researchers. ICRAT 2010 was organized by FAA, EUROCONTROL and Budapest University of Technology & Economics, and took place in Budapest, Hungary on June 1 to 4. Co-authors of the winning paper are Henk Blom (NLR-ATSI) and Alberto Pasquini (Deep Blue).
The paper considers the challenges for safety analysis that are associated with the development of the Single European Sky. It has become good practice for Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) to conduct a safety analysis before introducing a change to their operations, in order to timely identify and mitigate potential safety hazards. The SESAR Program (Single European Sky ATM Research) however is planning changes in air transport operations that go much beyond changes at an individual ANSP. Hence, the question arises whether methods that are usually adopted for safety analysis by ANSPs are also appropriate for the analysis of such far-reaching changes. The paper provides an overview of the needs for improvement that were identified by SESAR itself, and identifies techniques that may address these needs.
Main part of the research described in the paper has been conducted within the European Commission sponsored CAATS II project.
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