Turbulence is a leading cause of aviation injuries in the US air transport sector and there are technologies with the potential to mitigate this impact. However development of these systems is hindered by the lack of accurate information to determine whether they are economically feasible based...

This paper presents a survey of the literature on human factors in airline safety and builds a conceptual framework for designing future safety studies. In our framework, factors are analyzed to determine their association with operational errors rather than accidents. Since operational errors...

This paper presents the results of a study that examined the feasibility of cockpit weather information systems in the transport, commuter, and business market segments. It begins with a description of the general weather system characteristics that study participants identified as necessary for...

This paper analyzes the US Airport Improvement Program as it relates to the US Federal Aviation Administration's strategic goals for its allocation to general aviation airports for safety-related purposes. The data used describe airports' characteristics, approach slope conditions based on 5010...

The paper considers if there are any differences in the cabin safety intentions in the case of an incident between passengers with reduced mobility and regular passengers. Passengers of both types were surveyed, using questions based on the theory of planned behavior plus cabin safety...

This paper examines factors that have influenced the average accident rate per million departures in Taiwan from 1985 to 2011 involving turbojet aircraft hull loss. Our analysis is based on the nature of rare events, used to find the importance of the International Civil Aviation Organization...

Sub-Saharan Africa's air transport, though low in overall volume when compared to other regions in the world, has experienced significant growth in the last decade, both in international and domestic traffic. The sector, in part because of its relatively small size, still faces the challenges of...

Aviation industry is facing two major challenges of safety and performance improvement. They will be expected to be resolved in the context of big data. This paper focuses on the impact of big data on aviation industry and the construction of aviation big data platform and its information...