The Role of Data Sharing in Improving Global

The Time is Right • SMS rising • Precursors to accidents / incidents •

Framework for Safety Data Sharing Voluntary and non-punitive Data driven and analytical Safety Data Sharing Causal Factors Collaborative and voluntary adoption of solutions and best practices Safety Solutions Measuring Safety Improvements © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Benchmarks and Metrics

Key Aviation Safety Data Elements © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Digital Aircraft Data: FOQA and FDM • Passive acquisition and archiving of aircraft operations • Hundreds of flight parameters • Objective measurements • Recording of exceedances and atypicalities © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Voluntary Safety Reports Air Traffic Controllers Maintenance Technicians Pilots Flight Attendants Dispatch © 2013

Airport Safety Data • Ramp incidents data • Runway/taxiway closures and modifications • Surface conditions • Airport elevation Data • Obstacle data • Terrain information © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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 © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Fatigue and Biometric Data in Aviation • Need for Fatigue Risk Management best practices • Need to develop metrics and measure FRM • Need to integrate FRM Pilot into Safety Management Air Traffic Controllers Systems Maintenance technicians © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Emerging Opportunity: Mining of Air-Ground Voice Data Automatic Speech Processing Transcriptions, Metadata Semantic Tags, Audio Fusion with Flight Data Retrieval By Flight By Sector By Clearance By Phraseology e. g. UAL 328 e. g. ZID 88 e. g. ↓FL 240 e. g. Line up and Wait © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Putting It All Together! Getting to Causal Factors Risk of Unstable Runway Approaches Excursions FDM and FOQA Missed Approaches ü Loss of Control TCAS and TAWS ü ü Voluntary Safety Reports ü ü ANSP Data ü ü ü Fatigue Data ü ü Airports and Ramp Data Voice Data ü ü © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved. ü

Some Emerging Issues © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Improving Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities • Data acquisition, archiving & management • Cloud computing • Data quality assurance • Data mining capabilities • Metrics development • Robust algorithms • Visualization techniques © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Effective Governance • Fostering Voluntary safety reporting • Data protection and sharing • Data fusion • Data aggregation • Risk reduction and mitigation © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

World-Wide Harmonization • Cultural norms relating to safety reporting • Standards & guidance • Taxonomy • Scalability • Reporting & analysis Capabilities • Outreach and Education © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

The Way Forward How 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 © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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World-Wide Accident Rates Accidents per Million Departures Percent of all Departures Europe 4. 2 North America 2. 8 Asia 2. 7 30% 5% Africa 4. 8 23% Asia 1. 9 Latin America & Caribbean 3. 8 12% Source: ICAO (2013) http: //www. icao. int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2013 -Safety-Report_FINAL. pdf © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.