On this page you will find publicly available reports and publications issued by NLR-ATSI.

Publications

2008

• H H de Jong, F Preti, and G W H van Es, A framework of indicators for the potential influence of Air Navigation Services on air traffic safety in Europe, Journal of Risk and Reliability (Part O of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers), Proc. IMechE, Vol. 222, Part O1, 2008.
  
• G W H van Es, The Importance of Proper Weight and Balance, Transport Canada Aviation Safety Letter, Issue 2/2008
  

2007

• Gerard W.H. van Es, Say Again! Communication Problems Between Controllers and Pilots, Transport Canada Aviation Safety Letter, TP 185E, Issue 2, 2007, pp 17-18.
  
• Gerard W.H. van Es, Analysis of aircraft weight and balance related safety occurrences, NLR-TP-2007-153. Presented at Flight Safety Foundation's 19th annual European Aviation Safety Seminar (EASS)
  
• Gerard W.H. van Es, Civil aviation safety data 1991-2005, Publication prepared for IVW
  

2006

• P.J. van der Geest and G.H.W. van Es, A study of normal operational landing performance on subsonic civil narrow body jet aircraft during ILS approaches, NLR-CR-2006-049
• G.W.H. van Es, Crosswind Certification - How does it affect you? , NLR-TP-2006-324
• U.G. Dees, P.J. van der Geest, H.H. de Jong and M.A. Piers, Post implementation audit of aviation safety management in Switzerland, On the way from the myth of perfection towards excellence, NLR-CR-2006-536
• P.J. van der Geest, J.A. Post, G.B. van Baren, H.A. Lania, S. Wanders (NACO) and H.A.P.J. Baijer (NACO), Flight technical assessment of Reykjavik Aiport - Evaluation of three airport variants, NLR-CR-2006-203
  
• P.J. van der Geest, J.A. Post, H.A.P.J. Baijer (NACO) and S. Wanders (NACO), Flight technical assessment of Reykjavik Aiport - prestudy, NLR-CR-2006-012
  

2005

• Gerard W.H. van Es, Running out of runway. Analysis of 35 years of landing overrun accidents, NLR-TP-2005-498
  
• R. Wever, G.W.H. van Es, M.J. Verbeek, Air-Ground Communication Safety Study: Causes and Recommendations, NLR-CR-2005-395
  

2004

• H.H. de Jong, Guidelines for the identification of hazards, How to make unimaginable hazards imaginable?, NLR-CR-2004-094
  
• G.W.H. van Es, Air-ground Communication Safety Study, An analysis of pilot-controller occurrences.
• M.H.C. Everdij, Review of Techniques to Support the EATMP Safety Assessment Methodology, January 2004. EEC Note No. 01/04. Project SRD-3-E1, Volume I, Volume II - Annex

2003

• P.J. van der Geest, M.A. Piers, H.H. de Jong, M. Finger (EPFL), D.H. Slater (Acona), G.W.H. van Es, G.J. van der Nat, Aviation safety management in Switzerland, Recovering from the myth of perfection NLR-CR-2003-316
• Civil Aviation Safety Data 1989-2003
• G.W.H. van Es, Review of Air Traffic Management-related accidents worldwide: 1980 - 2001, NLR-TP-2003-376

2002

• G.W.H. van Es, Advanced Flight Data Analysis, NLR-TP-2002-091

2001

• G.W.H. van Es, P.J. van der Geest and T. M.H. Nieuwpoort, Safety aspects of aircraft operations in crosswind, NLR-TP-2001-217
• G.W.H. van Es, A.L.C. Roelen, E.A.C. Kruijsen and M.K.H. Giesberts, Safety aspects of aircraft performance on wet and contaminated runways, NLR-TP-2001-216
• G.W.H. van Es and A.K. Karwal, Safety aspects of tailwind operations, NLR-TP-2001-003

TOPAZ Key Publications

• H.A.P. Blom, J. Daams and H.B. Nijhuis, Human cognition modelling in Air Traffic Management safety assessment, In: Air Transportation Systems Engineering, edited by G.L. Donohue and A.G. Zellweger, Vol. 193 in Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Paul Zarchan, Editor-in-Chief, Chapter 29, pp. 481-511, 2001
• H.A.P. Blom, S.H. Stroeve, M.H.C. Everdij and M.N.J. van der Park, Human cognition performance model to evaluate safe spacing in air traffic, Human Factors and Aerospace Safety, Vol. 3 (2003), pp. 59-82.
• S.H. Stroeve, H.A.P. Blom and M.N.J. van der Park, Multi-Agent Situation Awareness Error Evolution in Accident Risk Modelling, Proc. 5th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, Budapest, Hungary, 23-27 June 2003.
• H.A.P. Blom, K.M. Corker, S.H. Stroeve, On the integration of human performance and collision risk simulation models of runway operation, Proc. 6th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, Baltimore, USA, 27-30 June 2005.

• H.A.P. Blom and G.J. Bakker, Conflict probability and Incrossing probability in air traffic management, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002, pp. 2421-2426.
• H.A.P. Blom, G.J. Bakker, M.H.C. Everdij, M.N.J. van der Park, Collision risk modelling of air traffic, Proc. European Control Conf. 2003 (ECC03), Cambridge, UK, September 2003.
• M.H.C. Everdij and H.A.P. Blom, Piecewise deterministic Markov processes represented by dynamically coloured Petri nets, Stochastics, Vol. 77 (2005), pp. 1-29.
• M.H.C. Everdij, H.A.P. Blom, S.H. Stroeve, Structured assessment of bias and uncertainty in Monte Carlo simulated accident risk, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM8), May 2006, New Orleans, USA.
• M.H.C. Everdij, M.B. Klompstra, H.A.P. Blom, B. Klein Obbink, Compositional specification of a multi-agent system by stochastically and dynamically coloured Petri nets, Eds: H.A.P. Blom, J. Lygeros (eds.), Stochastic hybrid systems: Theory and safety critical applications, Springer, 2006, pp. 325-350.

• H.A.P. Blom, G.J. Bakker, P.J.G. Blanker, J. Daams, M.H.C. Everdij, M.B. Klompstra, Accident risk assessment for advanced ATM, In: Air Transportation Systems Engineering, edited by G.L. Donohue and A.G. Zellweger, Vol. 193 in Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Paul Zarchan, Editor-in-Chief, Chapter 29, pp. 463-480, 2001
• J. Kos, H.A.P. Blom, L.J.P. Speijker, M.B. Klompstra, G.J. Bakker, Probabilistic wake vortex induced accident risk assessment. In Air Transportation Systems Engineering, ed. by G.L. Donohue and A.G. Zellweger, Vol. 193 in Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, P.Zarchan, Editor-in-Chief, Chapter 31, pp. 513-531, 2001
• H.A.P. Blom, S.H. Stroeve, H.H. De Jong, Safety risk assessment by Monte Carlo simulation of complex safety critical operations, Proc. 14th Safety-critical Systems Symposum, Bristol, UK, February 2006, Eds: F. Redmill and T. Anderson, Springer, London, 2006.
• H.H. de Jong, S.H. Stroeve, H.A.P. Blom, The roles of air traffic controllers and pilots in safety risk analysis, Proc. ESREL 2006, Estoril, Portugal, September 2006.

• H.A.P. Blom, M.B. Klompstra and G.J. Bakker, Accident risk assessment of simultaneous converging instrument approaches, Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol. 11 (2003), pp. 123-155.
• H.A.P. Blom, G.J. Bakker, B. Klein Obbink, M.B. Klompstra, Free flight safety risk modeling and simulation, Proc. Int. Conf. on Research in Air Transport (ICRAT), Belgrade, June 26-28, 2006.
• M.H.C. Everdij, H.A.P. Blom, G.J. Bakker, Modelling lateral spacing and separation for airborne separation assurance using Petri nets, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modelling and Simulation International, forthcoming in Vol. 82 (2006).
• S.H. Stroeve, H.A.P. Blom, G.J. Bakker, Safety risk impact analysis of an ATC runway incursion alert system, Eurocontrol Safety R&D Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, 25-27 October 2006.