AIRTRANS OPERATIONAL READINESS TEST--AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION EVALUATION

Airtrans provides International Transportation at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. Operational readiness of the vehicles is assured by an automated departure test. The test plan was formulated in the conceptual stages of airtrans design. Main objectives of the plan were to make the vehicles testable using existing operational hardware and with no special test connector. Test design features had the same priority as other vehicle operating requirements. Merging test constraints with prime system operating requirements achieved an efficient and very thorough test. In addition, vehicle checkout features aided verification, production and maintenance testing. The results demonstrate that sufficient priority applied to test objectives, early, provides important contributions to overall system design.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • From Automatic Support Systems for Advanced Maintainability, International Symposium, Arlington, Texas, November 5-7, 1973.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
  New York, NY  United States  10016-5997
• Authors:
  • Nicholson, R A
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Inspection; Intra airport transit; Landside capacity; Maintenance; Operations; System design; Testing
• Identifier Terms: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
• Old TRIS Terms: Automated transit system; Operational readiness; Verification inspection
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155880
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Aerospace Abstracts
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 1981 12:00AM