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Runway Status Lights Evaluation Report
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1998-09-01
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OCLC Number:46970740
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NTL Classification:NTL-AVIATION-Air Traffic Control
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Abstract:The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted a proof-of-concept demonstration of the Runway Status Lights (RWSL) at Boston's Logan International Airport. The RWSL, employing a network of lights on the airport movement surface, conveys information to enhance the pilots situational awareness of airport operations and to reduce the incidence of runway incursions and airport surface accents. The FAA extended the effort conducted previously by MIT Lincoln Laboratory by installing an operational system in a live environment, integrating the system with primary radar, designing and installing a prototype lighting system and demonstrating the performance requirements needed to uncover the lights. Maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf equipment (COTS) hardware and software was utilized to minimize cost and expedite the challenging schedule. The RWSL proof-of-concept demonstration accomplished all of its engineering objectives. One hundred hours of data were collected, representing 8298 operations involving arriving and departing aircraft with the network of lights covered, i.e. not observable to the pilots. The analysis of the data was used as a baseline to define system performance. The performance of the lighting network registered over 98% agreement with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions. Because of restrictive limitations placed on uncovering the network of lights to pilots, statistically significant quantitative information was not collected. Specific recommendations and suggestions for improvement are included in this document.
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