Track: Aviation and Aerospace

Abstract

Air transportation is challenged by the increasingly high-density airspace traffic, thus aviation being a very complex system is highly reliant on technology advancements to ensure the highest levels of safety.  As aviation transitions from a ground-based system to a satellite-based system, a wide scale of system re-designing presents one of the biggest system engineering challenges to aviation organizations globally. Countries in America and Europe, faced with very high traffic density, have since been working on the preparation for this transition.  The Asia Pacific region is in the same predicament, driven by a surging demand that will account for more than half of the new air passenger traffic forecast in the region, according to the latest edition of IATA’s 20-year forecast from 2015 to 2035. This research aims to assess the preparedness of Philippine Aviation in Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) transition and to determine the key success factors to an eventual ADS-B implementation, by way of benchmarking with the latest and more advanced US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and European Union (EU) Eurocontrol surveillance systems.