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Front Matter i-vii
ACRP Report 51 Risk Assessment Method to Support Modification of Airfield Separation Standards 1-1
Transportation Research Board 2011 Executive Committee 2-2
Risk Assessment Method to Support Modification of Airfield Separation Standards 3-4
About the National Academies 5-5
ACRP Project 04-09 Panel 6-5
Author Acknowledgments 6-6
Foreword 7-7
Contents 8-9
Summary 10-10
Chapter 1 - Background 11-10
Introduction 11-10
Project Goals 11-10
Major Challenges Associated with Airfield Separations 11-11
FAA Modification of Standards 12-12
Chapter 2 - Airfield Separation Rationale 13-12
FAA Rationale 13-16
ICAO Rationale 17-20
Chapter 3 - Data for Modeling Aircraft Deviations 21-20
Airfield Lateral Deviation Studies 21-20
Veer-Off Accidents and Incidents 21-21
Aircraft Veer-Off Database Organization 22-22
Normal Operations Data (NOD) 23-23
Aircraft Data 24-24
Chapter 4 - Methodology Approach 25-24
Taxiway and Taxilane Deviation Modeling 25-29
Runway Deviation Modeling 30-36
Chapter 5 - Validating the Methodology 37-36
MOS Case Studies 37-36
MOS Survey 37-36
Methodology Applied to MOS Cases 37-39
Chapter 6 - Conclusions and Recommendations 40-39
Major Achievements 40-40
Limitations 41-40
Recommendations for Future Work 41-42
Glossary of Acronyms 43-44
Definitions 45-45
References 46-47
Appendix A - Risk Assessment Methodology 48-87
Appendix B - Collision Risk Model 88-88
Appendix C - Key Studies on Aircraft Deviation 89-89
Appendix D - List of Veer-Off Accidents and Incidents 90-90
Appendix E - Sample of Normal Operations Data 91-91
Appendix F - Aircraft Database Summary 92-100
Appendix G - Summary of FAA/Boeing Taxiway Deviation Studies 101-101
Appendix H - Analysis of MOS Cases 102-130
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications 131-122

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Risk Assessment Method to Support Modification of Airfield Separation Standards (2011)

Chapter: Appendix B - Collision Risk Model

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Chapter: Appendix B - Collision Risk Model