A systems approach to identifying aircraft equipage requirements, benefits, and risks of ADS-B applications

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is considered to be a crucial part of the next generation of air transportation systems worldwide. Developing mature ADS-B applications which provide stakeholders with benefits is necessary to facilitate timely equipage. This investigation focuses on identifying the level of perceived benefit of unique ADS-B applications for two stakeholder groups: airlines and pilots. It determines the performance requirements of the unique ADS-B applications and develops aircraft equipage packages that enable sets of applications to be implemented at once. In this way, logical upgrade paths are identified which provide benefits to stakeholders. In addition, risks associated with each equipage package were identified. The conclusions of this study identify seventy-five unique ADS-B applications and five logical equipage package options, each of which provide a subset of the seventy-five applications.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• Jenkins, Marisa Rachael

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• R. John Hansman.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47813

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/47813