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Title of Design: Eapt: the Electronic Airport Planning Tool Design Challenge Addressed: Airport Management An Title of Design: eAPT: The Electronic Airport Planning Tool Design Challenge Addressed: Airport Management and Planning Team Member Names and Status: Marcus Peterson‐ Undergraduate Amanda Peterson ‐ Undergraduate Andrew Reinlieb‐ Undergraduate Stephen Tignor‐ Graduate Nathalie Vazquez‐ Graduate Michael Vincent‐ Graduate Hemali Virani‐ Graduate Advisor’s Names: Kelly Neville and Marty Lauth University Name: Embry‐Riddle Aeronautical University Executive Summary Planning large airport events such as air shows requires the coordination of a large amount of information across professionals from a wide range of areas. A single event can take months of planning on the part of airport staff and can require the use of information buried deep in technical documents. A program that allows planners to access and share information easily and intuitively has the potential to reduce planning time while providing a shared picture of an event to all members of a planning team. We propose eAPT, a map-based planning tool that combines airport pavement information with aircraft specifications to allow users to create and share airport event plans. Our team utilized human factors and systems engineering methods to elicit requirements from airport planning subject matter experts (SMEs) as well as other stakeholders involved in the planning of airport events. Human-computer interaction standards, guidelines and principals were then referenced in the design of the user interface and system architecture. eAPT is a program designed to give airport event planners a reliable and easy-to- use tool for assessing airport surfaces in order to plan aircraft movement and storage. eAPT is designed around SMART board technology to provide a collaborative planning environment for event planners. Event plans can also be shared with stakeholders and event attendees by means of a print-screen function. While our team has limited the scope of eAPT to aircraft movement and storage for event planning, there is a wide range of possibilities for expanding eAPT’s functionality to support the display and use of additional information in the future. Such future expansion may allow eAPT to, for example, additionally support local and wide-scale emergency responding. 2 Table of Contents 1 Problem Statement and Background on the Design Challenge ................................. 5 2 Summary of Literature Review .................................................................................... 6 3 Problem Solving Approach ........................................................................................... 7 3.1 Stakeholder Analysis ........................................................................................................... 7 3.2 Design Decisions Based on Stakeholder Priorities ........................................................... 9 3.3 Interactions with Subject Matter Experts ...................................................................... 10 3.4 Trade Study Results .......................................................................................................... 14 3.5 Systems Development Methods ........................................................................................ 16 4 Safety Risk Assessment................................................................................................ 20 4.1 Misuse ................................................................................................................................. 21 4.2 Safety Critical Functions .................................................................................................. 21 4.3 Human Error ..................................................................................................................... 22 4.4 Maintainability .................................................................................................................. 23 5 Description of the Technical Design ........................................................................... 24 5.1 Concept of Operations ...................................................................................................... 24 5.2 System Goal and Overview .............................................................................................. 24 5.4 Mockups ............................................................................................................................. 27 5.5 Human-System Interaction .............................................................................................. 28 6 Projected Impacts of Design ....................................................................................... 31 6.1 Scenario-Based Design ...................................................................................................... 31 6.2 Implementation Plan ......................................................................................................... 35 6.3 Potential Real-World Impact ........................................................................................... 36 3 6.4 Commercialization Potential ............................................................................................ 37 6.5 Financial Analysis ............................................................................................................. 38 Appendix A: Contact Information ............................................................................... 42 Appendix B: Description of University ........................................................................ 43 Appendix D: Design Submission Form ........................................................................ 45 Appendix E: Evaluation of Educational Experiences................................................. 46 Appendix F: References ................................................................................................ 53 Appendix G: Additional Images ................................................................................... 55 4 1 Problem Statement and Background on the Design Challenge Airports must, on an irregular basis, handle events that make unusual demands on resources and operations. Airport managers and operators must be able to adequately plan for these events, but currently have few tools to do so beyond pencils, paper, experience and legal requirements. An airshow or local event like a NASCAR race will bring in hundreds of aircraft ranging from small general aviation (GA) planes to large military and commercial aircraft. These can easily exceed an airport’s normal parking capacity. Unusual aircraft may run risks of causing damage to airport facilities or other aircraft through unusually heavy weight, large wingspan, large jet-blast radius, or poor turning radius. Some aircraft such as military planes or Air Force One will have additional security requirements beyond normal airport requirements, requiring additional resources. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations require emergency event pre- planning that must address challenges such as coordinating airport rescue and firefighting (ARFF) personnel and vehicles with outside emergency responders, “hazmat” operations, and security risks due to passengers disembarked away from the terminal. Airport maintenance projects such as runway repaving will call for intricate planning to minimize impacts on airport operations, for example to keep a primary runway in operation by carefully phasing which sections of the runway are being resurfaced so as to allow a useable section to always remain available. Planning these events can take a considerable amount of staff time and thus airport money. Airport operators must pull information from disparate sources such as aircraft databases, airport maps and even outside consultants, for example, to determine if 5 a given taxiway or parking ramp can support the weight of a military aircraft appearing for an airshow. Maps must be modified to show security zones or public access zones and modified usage of runways or ramps. Our team sees a role for a computer-based tool to aid in the planning for these special events, which we have named eAPT. The eAPT tool will allow airport staff to model these events in detail using resources and tools that include an aircraft specifications database, weight and clearance checks, and a customizable map display on which users can place aircraft, add notation, and define zones. 2 Summary of Literature Review A search of literature turned up few resources on the planning of air shows aside from some barebones guidelines for what is required, and nothing at all on tools to assist in the planning. Of use to our team were: • FAA Part 139 CertAlert 02-07, which provides guidance on the planning requirements needed to be granted an FAA 7711-1 Certificate of Authorization for legally conducting an airshow (Castellano, 2002). This provides the design basis of the tools designed for the eAPT program. • MIL-STD-1472, which was used as a design reference for the user interface for the eAPT program (Department of Defense, 2012). • NASA-STD-3000, which was also used as a design reference for the user interface of the eAPT program (NASA, 1995). • Apple Human Interface guidelines, which were consulted for elements of the interface dealing with touch-screen displays (Apple, 2012). 6 • The well publicized incident at the Paris 2011 airshow where a taxiing Airbus A-380 struck a building with a wingtip, which supports the idea that a tool to test such clearances will be useful (Baker, 2012). • Identification of the need for
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