A Methodological Framework for the Risk Assessment of Drone Intrusions in Airports

Drone expansion needs to be considered as a menace in cases of negligent, illicit, or non-cooperative use. In the case airports, complete protection against drone intrusion should rely on an management system, aiming at avoiding closure airport. This system requires setting proper risk assessment methodologies for airport operations, explicitly consider features intrusion, possibly from quantitative point view. work proposes methodological framework intrusions tailored drone-intrusion features, and current considering both safety-related security-related causes. The is based combination model-based data-driven approaches order to: (i) estimate vulnerability index, measure susceptibility intrusions, reference datasets; (ii) specify set event trees evaluate risks different threat scenarios related intrusions. proposed applied concrete study, Milan Malpensa achieved results show effectiveness approach elicit further requirements counter-drone systems airports assessed risks.