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Title: Research Pays Off: Enhancing Runway Safety Areas at San Francisco International Airport:
Research Tools Inform Decision Making and Compliance
Accession Number: 01613851
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: This article includes information from an Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) publication, “Improving the Safety of Runway Safety Areas.” In the 1960s, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) introduced new design standards that increased the size of runway safety areas (RSAs) to reduce the severity of aircraft incidents. U.S. airports were required to comply with these standards and to improve RSAs by the end of 2015. ACRP's latest research includes a functional hazard analysis for the types of incidents that relate to RSAs— including landing overruns, landing veer-offs, landing undershoots, takeoff veer-offs, and takeoff overruns. The research team analyzed more than 1,400 accidents and incidents that had occurred since 1980 and developed a three-part risk model. The project also developed Runway Safety Area Risk Analysis software, or RSARA, which can perform a full-risk assessment of individual and multiple runways. The San Francisco International Airport used ACRP evaluation methodology to identify cost-effective alternatives for enhancing their RSAs while complying with FAA mandates. This helped them reach a financially feasible decision that made a safe airport safer and that avoided unnecessary environmental impacts.
Language: English
Pagination: pp 56-57
Publication Date: 2016-7
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Photos; References
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Oct 11 2016 2:40PM
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