Wildlife strike risk assessment in several Italian airports: lessons from BRI and a new methodology implementation

The presence of wildlife in airport areas poses substantial hazards to aviation. Wildlife aircraft collisions (hereafter wildlife strikes) cause losses in terms of human lives and direct monetary losses for the aviation industry. In recent years, wildlife strikes have increased in parallel with air...

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Published in:PloS one 2011-12, Vol.6 (12), p.e28920-e28920
Main Authors: Soldatini, Cecilia, Albores-Barajas, Yuri Vladimir, Lovato, Tomas, Andreon, Adriano, Torricelli, Patrizia, Montemaggiori, Alessandro, Corsa, Cosimo, Georgalas, Vyron
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents, Aviation - prevention & control
Accidents, Aviation - statistics & numerical data
Aerospace industry
Air traffic
Air traffic control
Aircraft
Aircraft - statistics & numerical data
Aircraft hazards
Aircraft industry
Airports
Animals
Animals, Wild - physiology
Aviation
Biology
Birds
Birds - physiology
Collision mortality
Data analysis
Ecological risk assessment
Engineering
Environmental science
Habituation
Habituation (learning)
Hormones
Informatics
Italy
Linear Models
Management planning
Melatonin
Methods
Regression analysis
Risk assessment
Risk Assessment - methods
Strikes
Survival Rate
Time Factors
Trends
Wildlife
Wildlife management
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Summary:The presence of wildlife in airport areas poses substantial hazards to aviation. Wildlife aircraft collisions (hereafter wildlife strikes) cause losses in terms of human lives and direct monetary losses for the aviation industry. In recent years, wildlife strikes have increased in parallel with air traffic increase and species habituation to anthropic areas. In this paper, we used an ecological approach to wildlife strike risk assessment to eight Italian international airports. The main achievement is a site-specific analysis that avoids flattening wildlife strike events on a large scale while maintaining comparable airport risk assessments. This second version of the Birdstrike Risk Index (BRI2) is a sensitive tool that provides different time scale results allowing appropriate management planning. The methodology applied has been developed in accordance with the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, which recognizes it as a national standard implemented in the advisory circular ENAC APT-01B.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0028920