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ICAO Runway SafetyICAO/ASPA

Regional Seminar on Safety Management Systems (SMS)

Mexico14-16 March 2006

Gustavo De León Technical Officer, ATM

ICAO-Montreal

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Introduction

Runway safety work by ICAO New Runway Incursion Prevention

Manual ICAO Runway Safety Toolkit Conclusions

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ICAO safety-related workRunway safety work

June 2001 New ANC Task developed on runway

incursions ANC formed ad hoc working group and

identified study areas as: ATC procedures Aerodrome charts Radiotelephony phraseology Situational awareness Language proficiency Aerodrome lighting and markings Performance requirements for equipment Operational aspects Human factors

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Transport Canada studyBasis for the increase in runway incursions

Traffic volume Capacity-enhancing procedures Airport layouts Complexity Human performance

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Transport Canada study

The potential for a runway incursion increases more rapidly than traffic volume. For example, a 20% increase in volume represents a 140% increase in runway incursion potential

In keeping with the laws of probability, and in the absence of significantly improved safeguards, an increase in the potential for runway incursions can be expected to be associated with an increase in actual runway incursion events

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Transport Canada studyCapacity-enhancing procedures

Two conclusions As traffic volume increases, runway

incursion potential increases more rapidly when capacity- enhancing procedures are in effect than when they are not

If traffic remains the same, the potential for runway incursions increases when capacity- enhancing procedures are put into operation

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ICAO’s role in improving runway safetyEducation and awareness campaign

Review and update provisions Education and awareness Seminars/Workshops Runway Incursion Prevention Manual Runway Safety Toolkit Establishment of a data base for runway

incursions Develop of an standard training package (STP)

TRAINAIR for global use

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ICAO provisions and documents

Advanced-Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) manual (Doc. 9830 published in 2004)

Simultaneous Operations on Parallel or Near-Parallel Instrument Runways (SOIR) (Doc 9643 published in 2004)

Manual on Safety Management (Doc 9854 advanced in ICAONET )

New Runway Incursion Prevention Manual (to be advanced in ICAONET)

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Definition of Runway IncursionCommon taxonomies

Definition of Runway incursion: Any occurrence at an aerodrome

involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take-off of aircraft.

Common categorization taxonomy needed

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ATM ProvisionsATC procedures

Annex 2: Rules of the Air Aircraft shall stop and hold at all runway

holding positions Aircraft shall not taxi onto maneuvering

area without clearance Annex 11: Air Traffic Services

Movement of persons and vehicles must be controlled by the control tower

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ATM ProvisionsRadiotelephony phraseology

Amendment to Annex 11 (Applicable since Nov. 2003) ATS safety management Read-back of clearances Use of surface movement radar ADS-B

PANS-ATM (Applicable since Nov. 2001) the requirement for an explicit clearance to "cross"

or an instruction to "hold short" of a runway to be included when a taxi clearance contains a taxi limit beyond that runway

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New PANS-ATM provisions

Changed Holding Position to Holding Point in radiotelephony phraseology

Clarified when pilot is to report clear of a runway

Harmonized reduced runway separation provisions

Introduced a new Recommended Practice on implementation of Surface Movement Radar

Clarified when and how to use conditional clearances

Need to report runway incursions

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Aerodrome ProvisionsAerodrome lighting and markings standardization

Annex 14: Aerodromes Enlarged version of runway holding

position markings Upgraded specifications on stop

bars and runway guard lights Use of retro-reflective materials for

markings Former Visual Aids Panel (VAP)

Development of specifications for on visual aids for A-SMGCS

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Amendment 7 to Annex 14

A fence or other suitable barrier shall be provided on an aerodrome to prevent the entrance to the movement area or animals large enough to be a hazard to aircraft

A fence or other suitable barrier shall be provided on an aerodrome to prevent the inadvertent or pre-meditated access of an unauthorized person onto a non-public area of the aerodrome

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Aircraft Operations ProvisionsSituational awareness and human performance

Procedures for Aircraft Operations (PANS- OPS) New part: Aerodrome Surface operations

aimed at addressing vulnerabilities in human performance and maintenance of situational awareness during surface operations

Provisions require that operators ensure flight personnel are aware of risk factors in the aerodrome surface operations

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Runway Safety and ATS Safety Management Seminars

Mexico City, 22 to 25 October 2002* Singapore, 1 to 5 December 2003 Cairo, 15 to 19 December 2003 Nairobi, 5 to 9 July 2004 Santiago de Chile, 18 to 22 October

2004 Moscow, 12 to 15 September 2005 * Runway Safety Conference

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ICAO Runway Incursion Prevention Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Causal and contributory

factors Chapter 3: How to establish a runway

incursion prevention programme Chapter 4: Recommendations for the

prevention of runway incursions Chapter 5: Incident reporting and data

collection Chapter 6: Analysis of the severity of

runway incursions

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Appendices Communications best practices Flight crew best practices Air traffic controller best practices Airside vehicle driver best practices Aerodrome resource management training course Runway incursion initial notification form Runway incursion causal factors identifying form Runway incursion severity classification (RISC)

calculator Aerodrome runway incursions assessment (ARIA) ICAO Runway Safety Toolkit Eurocontrol Runway Safety Toolkit

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Runway Safety- ToolkitEducation and Awareness

Collation of best available operational and technological material

Presentation in audio, graphic, textual format

Thematic narrative and various subsets

Interactive CD-ROM Assist States in establishing runway

safety programmes Distribution as a toolkit in compelling

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Conclusions

ICAO work improving runway safety ICAO provisions and documents Definition of Runway incursion Education and awareness:

worldwide campaign of seminars on runway safety

New Runway Incursion Prevention Manual

ICAO Runway Safety Toolkit

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