Reduction of Collisions Between Aircraft and Surface Vehicles: Conflict Alerting on Airport Surfaces Enabled by Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast

Automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast (ADS-B) will be the basis of future surveillance systems in the United States as well as in many other countries. The more frequent and more accurate information available with ADS-B could improve the performance of conflict-alerting systems for vehicles operating on airport surfaces. Ten years of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) airport surface accident reports were reviewed, and four encounter scenarios representing the most commonly observed interactions between aircraft and airport surface vehicles were created. A concept of operation was then defined for how an ADS-B–based alerting system could take advantage of ADS-B–specific information to generate alerts in each of those four encounter scenarios. Through the use of historical ADS-B data from the Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Louisville, Kentucky, airports, proof of concept was established. The concepts show promise in reducing the uncertainty in alerting systems that is present because of lack of knowledge of the intent of the operator. Instead of guessing at future states by propagating trajectories, an alerting system would compare expected behavior to actual behavior and alert personnel if a deviation were observed.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2325-06
• Summary URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Reduction+of+Collisions+Between+Aircraft+and+Surface+Vehicles%3a+Conflict+Alerting+on+Airport+Surfaces+Enabled+by+Automatic+Dependent+Surveillance-Broadcast&author=F.+Kunzi&publication_year=2013
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This is Paper #13-0434 in the Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers.
• Authors:
  • Kunzi, Fabrice
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 56-62
• Monograph Title: Public-Sector Aviation: Graduate Research Award Papers, 2011-2012
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2325
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Airport operations; Airport surface traffic control; Crash avoidance systems; Ground vehicles; Traffic surveillance; Uncertainty
• Uncontrolled Terms: Proof of concept
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01484787
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309263252
• Report/Paper Numbers: AGRA13-06
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 24 2013 10:25AM