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Periodic Reporting for period 2 - PJ03b SAFE (Airport Safety Nets)

Teaser

Safety is aviation’s top priority. To work for even safer airports, Project 03b SAFE defines, consolidates and validates additional safety barriers to mitigate the risks of runway incursion, runway excursion and more generally the risk of incidents and accidents involving...

Summary

Safety is aviation’s top priority. To work for even safer airports, Project 03b SAFE defines, consolidates and validates additional safety barriers to mitigate the risks of runway incursion, runway excursion and more generally the risk of incidents and accidents involving aircraft at the airport. They are declined into four Solutions:
• Solution PJ03b-01 ‘Enhanced airport safety support tools for controllers’ provides Tower Air Traffic Controllers with means to prevent the delivery of conflicting clearances and detect non-conformance to clearances on the entire airport.
• Solution PJ03b-03 ‘Conformance monitoring alerts for pilots’ warns pilots when an inconsistency between the aircraft behavior with either ATC Clearance or procedure is detected.
• Solution PJ03b-05 ‘Traffic alerts for pilots for airport operations’ provides pilots with a traffic alert if a risk of collision with another traffic on airport surface has been detected. It is a key feature to significantly improve safety on airport surface.
• Solution PJ03b-06 ‘Safety support tools for avoiding runway excursions’ addresses the most frequent type of runway safety accident. The work focuses on how the risk of runway excursion can be mitigated by on-board and ground systems that can warn pilots, airport operator or both when appropriate.

Work performed

At the beginning of this reporting period, PJ.03b project established the way to work in a collaborative manner and to deliver on commitments. The framework and the consolidated Project schedule were described in PJ.03b Project Management Plan that was issued in March 2017 and subsequently approved by H2020.
Regarding the project objectives, the first step consisted in reviewing the state of the art as at the end of 2016 for the 4 Solutions, mainly the results from SESAR1 and the respective regulatory frameworks when relevant.
PJ.03b Solution work packages have then detailed their validation approach in order to answer objectives and targets as described in PJ.03b Grant Agreement while considering the SESAR 2020 Programme framework and the Sesar 2020 Project handbook.

During the RP1 reporting period, one of the first main result was the delivery to the SJU of several interim documents with the goal to clarify the scope of each PJ.03b Solution. Moreover, these documents propose a first set of operational and technical specifications further assessed during validation activities held in 2018. Among a total of 17 validations exercises involving Pilots, Air Traffic Controllers and Airport Operators, 15 already took place in 2018. At the end of RP2, no blocking issue is identified so far that would challenge the expected Solutions maturity level in the deadlines.
Focusing on the PJ.03b-06, this Solution already delivered to H2020 the Documentation Pack describing the Solution in its V1 maturity level. This pack also includes a validation roadmap to progress towards a V2 maturity level by 2019.
About communication and dissemination of results, it should be highlighted that the Project has significantly supported the regulations and standards related to the topics addressed by the Solutions (OACI, EASA, EUROCAE). Moreover, the Project has actively communicated on its first results as well as the SESAR 1 outcomes which are the baseline of S2020 PJ03b Solutions. As part of these dissemination activities, the Project has contributed to update the European Air Traffic Management Architecture (EATMA) outlining the essential operational and technology changes foreseen to deliver the SESAR contributions to the Single European Sky performance objectives. All along this reporting period, special attention was paid by the project to stay in line with the standardization and regulatory works and to meet the end-users expectations, in particular the ones of air space users, air traffic controllers and airport operators. In this scope, in January 2019, the Project delivered to the SJU 3 detailed reports to point out the PJ.03b completed support to standardization activities in 2018. Moreover, the PJ.03b content integration team continuously monitors the consistency and interoperability of work package results as well as the alignment with end users expectations. For instance, for that purpose an open workshop was organized in April 2018 by the project to discuss the Solution PJ03b-03 and PJ03b-06 and its operational interoperability. This was the opportunity for the Project to collect the feedback of non SESAR members including Airspace Users.

Final results

\"The Project confirms the following objectives:

Definition and validation of the V2 solution PJ.03b-01 “Enhanced airport safety nets for controllers” to achieve a V2 maturity level and deliver the H2020 Solution Pack as defined in the PJ.03b PMP by 31/12/2019.
Definition and validation of the V2 Solution PJ.03b-03 “Conformance monitoring alerts for Pilots” to achieve a V2 maturity level and deliver the H2020 Solution Pack as defined in the PJ.03b PMP by 31/12/2019.
Definition and validation of the V3 solution PJ.03b-05 \"\"Traffic alerts for pilots for airport operations\"\" to achieve a V3 maturity level and deliver the H2020 Solution Pack as defined in the PJ.03b PMP by 31/12/2019.
Definition and validation of the V2 solution PJ.03b-06 “Safety support tools for runway excursions” to achieve a V2 maturity level and deliver the H2020 Solution Pack as defined in the PJ.03b PMP by 31/12/2019.

Social Impact:
An improvement of safety through the implementation of safety nets is still expected to reinforce the confidence that EU citizens have on the aviation. Preventing accidents is the main purpose of Air Traffic Control and any failure resulting in accidents will have social impact on travelling public and, consequently, economic impact on the industry.

Economic Impact:
PJ.03b still confirms the following economic impacts highlighted at start of the project:
- PJ03b solutions will have an indirect economic impact as the safety improvement will ultimately reduce the number of accidents and therefore costs of damage to aircraft.
- Several occurrences of incidents/accidents at the same airport could have a very negative impact on the Airport Operator, resulting in a temporary loss of revenue. An improvement of safety will thus contribute to reduce this risk at the level of an airport.
- Incidents or accidents at the airport could block a taxiway or a runway, resulting in a temporary loss of airport capacity, impacting the business of the airlines and airport operator. An improvement of safety will thus contribute to reduce this risk at the level of an airport.

However, here are some discrepancies compared to the vision at start of the project:
- PJ.03b-01 solution might confirm in 2019 activities additional benefit in Cost effectiveness, thanks to the Operational Improvement “AO-0108”.
- PJ.03b-06 solution V1 analysis (Benefits Impact Mechanisms study in the appendix of V1 SPR-INTEROP/OSED) invalidated any Cost Effectiveness benefit of the Solution. The approach was coordinated with SJU and S2020 project in charge of Master Plan (PJ20).

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Website & more info

More info: http://www.sesarju.eu/projects/safe.