Ricerc@Sapienza

The European vision for aviation development aims at reducing of 80% the accident rate by the year 2050, with respect to the year 2000, even considering the increasing traffic volume. Consequently, there is a need for accurate performance reporting, thorough analysis and adequate measures, flexible to reflect emerging issues in real time. The SmartSAFiproject aims at promoting Smart Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), based on a proper FRAM functional modelling of logic and relations of the ATM system, collecting data from all types of aviation stakeholders.
The main goal consists of improving the management and sharing of European-wide aviation safety knowledge, through its whole life-cycle: from the service provider's occurrence reports through EASA analyses up to dissemination of the resulting knowledge, back to service providers.
The specific goals of SmartSAF are to:
- improve data collection (reporting, investigation and analysis) for experts as well as for the community,
- design and implement Smart KPIS, according to the functional model of the ATM system, to properly evaluate the 11 ICAO's Key Performance Areas (KPAs) in an integrated way. Smart KPIs, which will completely remove any bias caused by the differences between people of a distinct background interpreting the same issue. This will also substantially raise the consistency of any data, statistics or information shared regarding the KPIs being evaluated.
- improve harmonization of performance knowledge, to share among stakeholders, through the evaluation of the knowledge quality.

The proposal is part of the original SmartSAF project, not funded by the H2020 program, whose main target was to exploit aviation knowledge by means of a formal model: an information ontology built on top of formal logics of knowledge representation. The ontological model would allow existing data to be described in a uniform way and would allow mutual interrelationships and in-depth understanding of the ATM system.