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The Role of Data Sharing in Improving
Global Safety
Hassan Shahidi - MITRE
Flight Safety FoundationIASS
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
Collaborative and voluntary adoption of solutions and best practices
SafetyData
Sharing
MeasuringSafety
Improvements
SafetySolutions
Causal Factors
Voluntary and non-punitive
Data driven and analytical
Benchmarks and Metrics
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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
PilotAir Traffic Controllers Maintenance technicians
• Need for Fatigue Risk Management best practices
• Need to develop metrics and measure FRM
• Need to integrate FRM into Safety Management Systems
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Emerging Opportunity:Mining of Air-Ground Voice Data
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Automatic Speech Processing
Transcriptions, MetadataSemantic Tags, Audio
Fusion with Flight Data
Retrieval
By Flighte.g. UAL328
By Sectore.g. ZID 88
By Clearancee.g. ↓FL240
By Phraseologye.g. Line up and Wait
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Putting It All Together!Getting to Causal FactorsRisk of Runway
Excursions
Unstable Approaches
Missed Approaches
Loss of Control
TCAS and TAWS
FDM and FOQA
Voluntary Safety Reports
ANSP Data
Fatigue Data Airports and Ramp Data
Voice Data
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• Data acquisition, archiving & management
• Cloud computing• Data quality assurance• Data mining capabilities• Metrics development • Robust algorithms• Visualization techniques
Improving Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities
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• Fostering Voluntary safety reporting
• Data protection and sharing
• Data fusion• Data aggregation• Risk reduction and
mitigation
Effective Governance
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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 ForwardHow 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 RatesAccidents per Million Departures
Percent of all Departures
Asia1.9
North America2.8
Latin America& Caribbean
3.8
Europe4.2 Asia
2.7
Africa4.8
Source: ICAO (2013)http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2013-Safety-Report_FINAL.pdf
30%30%
12%
5%
23%