In recent years the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made reduction of runway incursions a priority for surface operations throughout the national airspace system. In a series of experiments conducted in April 2001, NASA studied alternatives designed to improve the efficient movement of surface traffic and reduce runway incursions at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The experim...

Airport runway segmentation can effectively reduce the accident rate during landing phase, which has largest risk of flight accidents. With rapid development deep learning (DL), related methods achieve good performance on tasks and be well adapted to complex scenes. However, lack large-scale, publicly available datasets in this field makes based DL difficult. Therefore, we propose a benchmark f...

A runway incursion is a situation where two or more aircraft or vehicles occupy one runway simultaneously and as such create a potentially dangerous situation. We can think of many situations where two aircraft/vehicles occupy the same runway simultaneously, but do not cause a conflicting situation, e.g. two taxiing aircraft on a closed runway or a departing aircraft lining up behind a landing ...

In commission of the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the City of Eindhoven we registered the number of birds aloft on Eindhoven Airport between August 1998 and July 1999 by visual techniques using binoculars. Observations were conducted during four days each month and lasted the full daylight period. Two methods were used: observations in a fixed volume covering a part of the runway and borderi...

Existing methods of runway detection are more focused on image processing for remote sensing images based on computer vision techniques. However, these algorithms are too complicated and time-consuming to meet the demand for real-time airborne application. This paper proposes a novel runway detection method based on airborne multi-sensors data fusion which works in a coarse-to-fine hierarchical...

This paper addresses some of the hazards arising from an airport runway and its associated operations. It describes an approach to risk assessment in this context; some of the tools that may be applied; and some mitigations, both established and innovative.

INTRODUCTION Airport surface safety and in particular runway and taxiway safety is acknowledged globally as one of aviation's greatest challenges. To improve this key area of aviation safety, it is necessary to identify and understand the causal and contributing factors on safety occurrences. While the contribution of human factors, operations, and procedures has been researched extensively, th...

Fall 2015 | Acoustics Today | 27 Introduction Vigorous community opposition to aircraft noise exposure is more the rule than the exception at airports worldwide, particularly when efforts are made to increase airport capacity or change operational patterns. Since the introduction of commercial jet service in the late 1950s, these disputes have often been highly contentious, to the point of inte...