CARA: A human reliability assessment tool for air traffic safety management - Technical basis and preliminary architecture

The Safety of Systems - Proceedings of the 15th Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, SSS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 197-214

  Kirwan, Barry ^a   Gibson, Huw ^b  

^a EUROCONTROL EXPERIMENTAL CENTRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; AVIATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER; AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; ENHANCING CAPACITY; HIGH RELIABILITY; HUMAN CONTROLLERS; HUMAN PERSPECTIVES; HUMAN RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; TRAFFIC LEVELS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84883118086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-806-7_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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