The Role of Data Sharing in Improving Global Safety

1. The Role of Data Sharing in Improving Global Safety Hassan Shahidi - MITRE Flight Safety Foundation IASS October 31, 2013

2. The Time is Right • SMS rising • Precursors to accidents / incidents • Risk reduction & prevention • Data mining / analysis

3. Framework for Safety Data Sharing Voluntary and non-punitive Safety Data Sharing Collaborative and voluntary adoption of solutions and best practices Data driven and analytical Safety Solutions Causal Factors Measuring Safety Improvements Benchmarks and Metrics

4. Key Aviation Safety Data Elements

5. Digital Aircraft Data: FOQA and FDM • Passive acquisition and archiving of aircraft operations • Hundreds of flight parameters • Objective measurements • Recording of exceedances and atypicalities

6. Voluntary Safety Reports • Air Traffic Controllers • Maintenance Technicians • Pilots • Flight Attendants • Dispatch

7. Airport Safety Data • Ramp incidents data • Runway/taxiway closures and modifications • Surface conditions • Airport elevation Data • Obstacle data • Terrain information

8. Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) Operational Data • Emerging power of operational data derived from air traffic control systems • Airspace and procedure data • Radar and Surveillance data • Weather and wind data • Different domains: En Route, Aerodrome, Tower

9. Fatigue and Biometric Data in Aviation • Need for Fatigue Risk Management best practices • Need to develop metrics and measure FRM • Need to integrate FRM into Safety Management Systems • Pilot • Air Traffic Controllers • Maintenance technicians

10. Emerging Opportunity:Mining of Air-Ground Voice Data Automatic Speech Processing Transcriptions, Metadata Semantic Tags, Audio Fusion with Flight Data Retrieval By Flight e.g. UAL328 By Sector e.g. ZID 88 By Clearance e.g. ↓FL240 By Phraseology e.g.Line up and Wait

11. Putting It All Together!Getting to Causal Factors

12. Some Emerging Issues

13. Improving Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities • Data acquisition, archiving & management • Cloud computing • Data quality assurance • Data mining capabilities • Metrics development • Robust algorithms • Visualization techniques

14. Effective Governance • Fostering Voluntary safety reporting • Data protection and sharing • Data fusion • Data aggregation • Risk reduction and mitigation

15. World-Wide Harmonization • Cultural norms relating to safety reporting • Standards & guidance • Taxonomy • Scalability • Reporting & analysis Capabilities • Outreach and Education

16. The Way ForwardHow do we Get there from here? • The time is right • Facilitating World-wide community information sharing • Need focus World-wide community efforts in a common direction • Leveraging previous and existing initiatives • Collaboration……Collaboration….Collaboration

18. World-Wide Accident RatesAccidents per Million DeparturesPercent of all Departures Europe 4.2 Asia 2.7 North America 2.8 30% 30% 23% Asia 1.9 5% Africa 4.8 Latin America & Caribbean 3.8 12% • Source: ICAO (2013) • http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2013-Safety-Report_FINAL.pdf

19. World’s Top Categories of Accidents • Source: ICAO (2013) • http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2013-Safety-Report_FINAL.pdf