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Safety differently
29 May 2020 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThis paper presents the findings from a ‘Safety Differently’ (SD) case study in aviation, and specifically in a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organisation in Southeast Asia. The goal of the case ...
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Measuring safety in aviation
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyAs part of their SMS, aviation service providers are required to develop and maintain the means to verify the safety performance of their organisation and to validate the effectiveness of safety risk controls. ...
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Neuroscientific tools in the cockpit:towards a meaningful decision support system for fatigue risk management
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyFatigued pilots are prone to experience cognitive disorders that degrade their performance and adherence to high safety standards. In light of the current challenging context in aviation, we report the early phase of ...
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Risk assessment
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe chapter analyses knowledge management paradigms for the understanding and prioritisation of risks (risk assessment), leading to decision- making amongst policy makers. Studies and approaches on knowledge-based ...
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Reactie op Rolf Hoving
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Measuring Safety in Aviation: Empirical Results about the Relation between Safety Outcomes and Safet
18 May 2017 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThe following research paper is published for The Seventh International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications. See the content of the paper below.
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Can the STAMP Model Serve in Establishing a Common Language?
15 February 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyA symbiotic relationship between human factors and safety scientists is needed to ensure the provision of holistic solutions for problems emerging in modern socio-technical systems. System Theoretic Accident Model ...
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Exploring the Diversity in Safety Measurement Practices: Empirical Results from Aviation
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyA literature review, which was conducted during the research project “Measuring Safety in Aviation – Developing Metrics for Safety Management Systems”, identified several problems and challenges ...
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Editorial of the 1st International Cross-Industry Safety Conference proceedings
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences was proud to organize the 1st International Cross-industry Safety Conference (ICSC) dedicated to both practical and theoretical aspects of safety. The conference ...
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How Completely and Similarly Do Safety Authorities Address Hazards Posed by New Technology?
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe continuous increase of accident and incident reports has indicated the potential of drones to threaten public safety. The published regulatory framework for small drones is not visibly based on a comprehensive ...
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Measuring Safety Through the Distance Between System States with the RiskSOAP Indicator
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyModern engineering systems are complex socio-technical structures with a mission to offer services of high quality, while in parallel ensuring profitability for their owners. However, practice has shown that ...
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Exploiting data from safety investigations and processes to assess performance of safety management
13 November 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThis paper presents an alternative way to use records from safety investigations as a means to support the evaluation of safety management (SM) aspects. Datasets from safety investigation reports and progress records ...
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Safety Culture Development: the Gap Between Industry Guidelines and Literature, and the Differences
8 September 2016 | Faculty of TechnologyReason’s typology of safety culture (i.e. Just, Informative, Learning, Flexible and Reporting cultures) is widely used in the industry and academia. Through literature review we developed a framework including ...
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Do experts agree when assessing risks? An empirical study
23 May 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyRisk matrices have been widely used in the industry under the notion that risk is a product of likelihood by severity of the hazard or safety case under consideration. When reliable raw data are not available to feed ...
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Critical review of safety performance metrics
19 April 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyVarious tools for safety performance measurement have been introduced in order to fulfil the need for safety monitoring in organisations, which is tightly related to their overall performance and achievement of their ...
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Combining Soft System Methodology and Pareto Analysis in Safety Management Performance Assessment
19 April 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyAlthough reengineering is strategically advantageous for organisations in order to keep functional and sustainable, safety must remain a priority and respective efforts need to be maintained. This paper suggests the ...
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Using STPA in the evaluation of fighter pilots training programs
17 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThis paper presents how the application of the STPA method might support the evaluation of fighter pilots training programs and trigger procedural and technological changes. We applied the STPA method by considering ...
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Editorial STAMP EU 2015
17 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyFollowing the successful 3rd European STAMP Workshop in Amsterdam (5-6 October 2015), organised by the Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, we are pleased to present to the academic and ...
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Human Error Views: Measuring the Distance between Academia and Industry
3 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe paper presents a framework that through structured analysis of accident reports explores the differences between practice and academic literature as well amongst organizations regarding their views on human error.
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Effects of Employment Costs and Task Load on Human Error
1 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyMarket competition and global financial uncertainty have been the principal drivers that impel aviation companies to proceed to budget cuts, including decreases in salary and work force levels, in order to ensure ...
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Evaluating Advancements in Accident Investigations Using a Novel Framework
22 July 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologySafety is monitored by various proactive and reactive methods, including the investigation of adverse accidents and incidents, which are collectively known as safety investigations. In this study we demonstrate how ...
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Applied Simulation and Optimization: In Logistics, Industrial and Aeronautical Practice
14 May 2015Presenting techniques, case-studies and methodologies that combine the use of simulation approaches with optimization techniques for facing problems in manufacturing, logistics, or aeronautical problems, this book ...
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Allocation of Airport Check-in Counters Using a Simulation-Optimization Approach
7 April 2015The aviation industry is expected to grow at a pace of 4 % per annum in the coming years, therefore it is necessary to have techniques that support the management of the resources at hand in the best possible way so ...
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Large Neighbourhood Search and Simulation for Disruption Management in the Airline Industry
7 April 2015 | Faculty of TechnologyThe airline industry is one of the most affected by operational disruptions, defined as deviations from originally planned operations. Due to airlines network configuration, delays are rapidly propagated to ...
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Airport Slots and Slot Allocation: Driver for Mismatch between Airline Network and City Needs?
13 November 2014Aviation increasingly faces capacity challenges exposing inefficiencies and shortcomings of aviation related processes and systems. The European slot allocation system was designed in an era with little to no ...
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Optimizing TMA Capacity: Case Mexico City Airport
1 October 2014Miguel Mujica Mota presented his paper 'Optimizing TMA capacity: the case of Mexico City Airport' during the 17th Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research (CLAIO) in Monterrey, Mexico.
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The duration of automation bias in a realistic setting
30 September 2014 | Faculty of TechnologyWhereas in most studies conducted previously the effect of automation bias has been investigated in terms of an instantaneous decision, this study is aimed at quantifying its duration.
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An introduction of accidents’ classification based on their outcome control
30 September 2014 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyMost safety oriented organizations have established their accidents classification taking into account the magnitude of the combined adverse outcomes on humans, assets and the environment without considering the ...
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CPN-Simulation Methodology for the Boarding Process of Aircraft
10 September 2014 | Faculty of TechnologyThe boarding process of an aircraft is one of the identified bottlenecks in the turnaround when aircraft arrives to an airport.
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The automatic identification of unstable approaches from flight
28 July 2014The automatic identification of unstable approaches from flight data by Coumou, Hunink and de Boer. Unstable approaches have been identified as a major risk factor in approach and landing accidents and runway ...
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Ultrasonic verification of composite structures
8 July 2014Ultrasonic Verification is a new method for the monitoring large surface areas of CFRP by ultrasound with few sensors. The echo response of a transmitted pulse through the structure is compared with the response of ...
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A Comprehensive Contemporary SMS Framework Including Planning and Monitoring Guidance
1 June 2014Various literature references discuss the value and the components of Safety Management Systems (SMS), which comprise the contemporary collection of management policies, procedures and practices that may ensure a ...
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Application of STAMP to facilitate interventions
25 March 2014Application of STAMP to facilitate interventions to improve platform safety by de Boer. This study aims to predict the relation between safety management and safety performance for a Ground Service Provider using the ...
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Specification of CPN Models into MAS Platform for the modelling of Political Issues: FUPOL project
1 March 2014Simulation transparency is becoming more crucial in the decision making process when quantitative computer tools are used to justify some strategies.
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Simulation-based Capacity Analysis for a Future Airport
1 February 2014The current article deals with the problem of assessing the practical capacity of an airport network.
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Defining the Interrelationship between Safety and Quality Management Systems
1 January 2014An article on the interrelationship between safety and quality management systems by Nektarios Karanikas
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Introduction into the professional use of light unmanned aircraft systems (in Dutch)
6 November 2013This introduction provides insight in all actions to be taken in order to fly light unmanned aircraft systems professionally. The introduction is based on the laws and regulations as specified for unmanned aviation ...
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From rule-based to evidence or risk-based
6 November 2013A House of Commons session concerning the classfication of ships, by S. Cijntje, R.J. de Boer, E. van der Hammer, H. ten Hoopen, J.H. Klok, P. Mast, U. Nieuwenhuis, W. den Ouden, N. Spiljard en J. Splinter.
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Assessing the Impact of A constrained Airport on the Capacity of an Airport Network with Simulation
1 November 2013The current article deals with the problem of assessing the practical capacity of an airport network.
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A New Methodology to Solve the Stochastic Aircraft Recovery Problem using Optimization and Simulation
9 October 2013The Aircraft Recovery Problem (ARP) appears when external events cause disruptions in a flight schedule. Thus in order to minimize the losses caused by the externalities, the aircraft must be reallocated ...
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An improved time-line search algorithm for manufacturing decision making
4 October 2013The coloured Petri net formalism has been recently used to analyse and optimise manufacturing systems making use of the state space (SS) analysis. This approach has great potential for scheduling and production ...
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Development and Simulation of a new Scheme for the Aircraft Cleaning Service
25 September 2013During the last decade with the increase of competition, airlines have set up schemes to lower costs. Their present profit margin has narrowed to the point of not being able to compete with companies whose business ...
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A methodology combining optimization and simulation for real applications of the Stochastic Aircraft Recovery Problem
10 September 2013The Aircraft Recovery Problem appears when external events cause disruptions in a flight schedule. Thus in order to minimize the losses caused by the externalities, aircrafts must be reallocated (rescheduled) in the ...
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A model to improve aircraft availability in the MRO&U Triad
30 August 2013The purpose of the research is to develop a model on achieving and improving one relevant concurrent indicator for all participants in an aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul and update (MRO&U) triad. The triad ...
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A Simulation-evolutionary approach for the allocation of Check-In desks in Airport Terminals
8 July 2013The aeronautical industry is still under expansion in spite of the problems it is facing due to the increase in oil prices, limited capacity, and novel regulations. The expansion trends translate into problems at ...
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Using reliability indicators to explore human factors issues in maintenance databases
5 May 2013 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe aim of this paper is to explore the usefulness of repairable parts simple historical databases in assisting the human factors experts to identify candidate areas for applying human factors methods. Therefore, ...
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Interaction between emotions and mental models in engineering
16 March 2013 | Faculty of TechnologyInteraction between emotions and mental models in engineering and design activities by de Boer and Badke-Schaub. The objective of this chapter is to describe the interaction between emotions and the preservation of ...
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An Organisational Structure Based on Risk and Quality Fundamentals
1 January 2013An article on organisational structure based on risk and quality fundamentals by Nektarios Karanikas
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Applying proven methods in a new environment: the case of LEAN in Business Aviation MRO
1 October 2012Many authors claim that LEAN principles can be applied successfully in any industry. Although LEAN success stories are visible throughout the automotive sector and even in larger aerospace Maintenance, Repair & ...
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Improving the Damage Tolerance of Composite Sandwich Structures by Use of AP-PLY
26 May 2012AP-PLY is a novel fiber architecture that combines the improved damage tolerance properties of a woven fabric with the advantages of a unidirectional laminate.