The Federal Aviation Administration is pleased to present the National Blueprint for Runway Safety, the guide by which the Runway Safety Program (RSP) will achieve a measurably safer runway environment. Simply stated, a runway incursion occurs when an aircraft, vehicle, or pedestrian transgresses on an active runway while it is being used by another aircraft to land or take off. Incursions are a growing threat to safety and, unless concerted action is taken across a full spectrum of potential causative factors, they are likely to continue to increase as a result of the 3% predicted annualized growth of air travel. Runway incursions are a high-profile problem recognized by the FAA and the aviation community as a primary threat to safety. The FAA Administrator has responded by including runway incursions in the Safer Skies initiative and creating a new organization dedicated solely to reducing incursions. The goal of the RSP is to design and execute a coherent, corporate action plan that will effectively reduce the number of incursions at our nation's airports. Though it is incumbent upon the FAA to lead the struggle against runway incursions, no single entity 'owns' runway incursions and no single entity owns the cure. Incursions happen because a variety of people (pilots, controllers, and vehicle drivers) occasionally makes mistakes. For this reason incursions are everyone's problem and everyone, at every level the problem touches, must participate in forming the solution. The RSP has reached out to the aviation community to improve runway safety in a systematic and strategic manner. A series of nine Regional Workshops were held across the country during the Spring of 2000. These meetings, under the auspices of the FAA, brought together all of the stakeholders in runway safety to develop additional ways to reduce runway incursions. The workshops were followed by a Human Factors and Runway Safety Symposium and a Runway Safety National Summit. Through these and other sources nearly 1,000 detailed and specific recommendations were received. These recommendations were then condensed into approximately 60 major initiatives by combining similar proposals and eliminating duplication. These 60 potential initiatives are grouped into seven major categories called thrusts, described in detail in the Blueprint. These thrusts are: Training; Technology; Communications; Procedures; Signs/Markings/Lighting; Data, Analysis, and Metrics; and Local Solutions. The Blueprint outlines a structured, iterative process designed to understand the problem, decide upon solutions, plan actions, implement initiatives, evaluate progress, and improve performance. Initiatives which offer clear benefits and which can be rapidly implemented will be accelerated. Detailed milestones are established by which progress may be evaluated. Specific factors have been identified as critical to success.


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    Title :

    National Blueprint for Runway Safety


    Publication date :

    2000


    Size :

    42 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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