Building on the work of the EDEMOI methodology, this paper proposes a twofold expansion of this methodology consisting in: (1) broadening its scope to include aviation safety legislations and (2) extending its usability to detect regression originating from regulatory amendments. Accordingly, this paper analyses the differences between safety and security legislations in civil aviation, develop...

The following is a discussion on the different aspects of the term capacity as well as a brief look at the commonly used capacity definitions in industrial and operations engineering in general and in Civil Aviation in particular. We maintain that quality factors (including more specifically here, safety) must be explicitly considered in runway capacity definition, and accordingly, we provide a...

Civil aviation pilots represent a small subsection of the general population. Therefore, one might expect to see the same types of drugs used by pilots that are found in the general population. The purpose of this study was to compare usage of both illegal drugs and abused prescription medications in pilots involved in civil aviation accidents from 1990 to 2005 with that of the general populati...

the promotion of oil and gas industry of a country or region requires foreign and longterm investments. ensuring demand security constitutes one of the major driving forces for promoting investments in oil and gas sectors. our main question is to understand the upcoming energy demand security in the caspian markets. just like supply security, energy demand security cannot be affected mainly by ...

This paper deals with civil aviation, which is highly international. Therefore, harmonization of regulation in this area on a global scale inevitable, means that aviation law requires an integrated approach. However, only slightly over half the countries fully comply standards issued by International Civil Aviation Organization for basic international regulation, poses serious threat to safety ...