| Summary |
Chieh-Ting Lin, 2007,07
Institute of Traffic and Transportation National Chiao Tung University
Ramp is the busiest area between the airport’s air-side and ground-side for airplanes parking and ground-service operating. Once a ramp accident occurs, it causes not only the damage to the aircrafts and injuries to the staff directly, but also the delay and disruption to the flight schedule indirectly. Because of its pressing workloads and costly consequences, airport ramp safety management has become a crucial issue in aviation, and how to further explore the hazards of ramp operations and reduce its risks is necessary. For this reason, this study begins with reviewing the standard operation procedures of varied tasks on ramp and systematizing corresponding operation processes by the blueprint concept. According to above blueprints, the potential hazards and possible events within each task are explored with event tree diagram. Furthermore, in order to assess the risk level of these events, a risk perception questionnaire is designed and a survey for ramp operation specialists is taken. Through the Risk-Matrix and Fault-Tree-Analysis, the risk level of each event is measured and the priority among hazards in each task is identified. The demonstration reveals that the proposed analysis model works well and can be a useful tool to assess the risk in airport ramp operations. |
