Evaluating the Impacts of The Internet of Things to Reduce Runway Incursions: Understanding the Why, How, And When - Part 1

Abstract

This main objective or the outcome expected out of this research is to enhance the safety on the AOA by investigating the use of automated technology to reduce the potential of a runway incursion event caused by vehicle and pedestrian deviation (VPD), pilot deviations (PD), operational incidents (OI), and other occurrences. Moreover, this research seeks to use statistical analysis to examine human causal elements, also called human factor errors. Incursion or incorrect presence of an aircraft in this runway posses a serious threat to the oncoming as well as outgoing air traffic and need to be analyzed and addressed. By gaining an understanding into why these runway incursions happen will give us insight on how to prevent them.