Literature Review Assignment
Literature Review Assignment
Introduction
Among all the main modes of transportation, most individuals prefer to travel by air transportation or airplanes. The air travel stays as a large and growing industry and it facilitates tourism, economic growth, international investment, world trade, and is vital to the globalization of many industries. However, incidents of midair collisions that involved commercial planes called the attention of the public. In this event, the United States is promoting aviation safety. The influence of the American government is experienced in all areas of aviation from certifying the aircraft airworthiness, providing funds and establishing standards for the airport development, operating a multi-billion dollar air traffic control system. Correspondingly, many studies are conducted in a bid to improve the management system in air traffic. Peyronne, Delahaye, Lapasset, and Mongeau affirm that the air traffic controllers are responsible for ensuring the safety of the public. Today, the air-traffic management or ATM used every available resource to increase airspace capacity. ATM is considered as the command and contact tool that plays a vital role in controlling air traffic. A necessary standard separation distance is properly defined to achieve the goal of safety. Specifically, as per definition of the safety standard separation distance, 5 Nautical Miles horizontally and 1000 feet vertically. Thus,the air traffic controller is responsible for ensuring the respect of the separation rules. Many claims for injury or death against the airplane manufacturers for their negligence for reasons. Possible negligence includes the complexity of aircraft design, difficulties in assembling together the causes of an accident, and a general tendency to blame early accidents on a pilot error. As a result, the Federal, State, and local policymakers have persisted in engaging with new transportation and communications technologies . Although the plane accident is extremely a tragic event, the lessons from the incident play a significant role in the process to continue improving aviation safety.
Literature Review
The aviation industry, although highly complex in its technicalities, is one of the largest growing industries in the world. It is crucial that the aviation industry takes into account the safety of others when operating. Delahaye, Peyronne, Mongeau, and Puechmorel outline that the problems of coordination of services with air traffic, algorithms of improvement of the efficiency of the system consist of integration and the use of air and ground space, pay particular attention to the insufficiencies of the aviation industry. The problems that are a hindrance to the transit facilities of the aviation industry relate to the innovative development model. It emphasizes that air traffic management requires a vast promotion of the collective and considerable resources. Great attention is given to the uses of mathematical models for planning, as well as optimization and adjustment of flight, in addition to the prevention and elimination of the conflict situations, concentration on the ground and in the air, including the provision of the vortex system security.
In addition to the belief of the introduction of technological innovations is being created, another objective, supported by Nakamura, Kajikawa, and Suzuki promotes the idea that there are new findings of new sources of economic growth and development. An issue that arises surrounding air traffic control is the range of the flights. It is necessary to improve the aeronautical products’ durability, reliability, and safety. Air traffic management should be designed in a manner in which it is safe, orderly and expeditious with the flow of air traffic. The said objectives can be effectively and sufficiently achieved through optimization. It comes into consideration that the air traffic control system will accelerate and eradicate problems to human inefficiencies.
What is the most important factor in determining the safety of an aircraft? Is it the mathematical equations that the aircraft relies so heavily on for adequate performance, the safety regulations that make the flights safer and more effective, or the consistencies that go into making the actual aircraft?
Theoretical Framework
The safety of the aircraft hinders on the contributing factors of performance, ie: how the aircraft is made, the safety procedures incurred by pilots, the mathematical build of the actual aircraft, and the regulations inflicted on the passengers, pilots, and flight crew aboard the aircraft.
One of the framework procedures in determining the safety of the aircraft is whether the aircraft is effectively and safely built to prevent against crashes. The mathematical equations, time, and algorithms, as well as interpretations of how the aircraft will best function, are all calculations of how well the aircraft is built. Only certain individuals are privy to building the actual aircraft. If all the building procedures are followed correctly and properly secured by other capable individuals checking the work, the aircraft will succeed in flight and not crash, as long as those safety procedures regarding building the aircraft are met.
Safety regulations must also be taken into consideration. Although different countries have variegated safety procedures for the actual flight, it is important to follow a standard code of excellence followed when executing these procedures and determining the guidelines of aircraft safety. The regulations enforced by the airline as well as the pilots and said countries, are the premises of what keep the passengers safe during the flight.
Hypothesis
What is the determining cause of crashes, not following safety procedures, or a faulty aircraft model? It can be hypothesized that safety procedures need to be followed to lessen the rate and impact of aircraft accidents.
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Nakamura, H., Kajikawa, Y., & Suzuki, S. (2013). Multi-level perspectives with technology
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