A runway incursion avoidance system includes a plurality of surveillance sub-systems that are configured to detect whether an approach and a surface of an aviation runway is currently occupied or will soon be occupied by an object, such as an aircraft, vehicle, pedestrian, wild animal, or other foreign object. The surveillance sub-systems each broadcast one or more occupancy states of the aviation runway. The runway incursion avoidance system further includes a plurality of runway status light sub-systems that control one or more runway status lights depending on the occupancy states broadcast by the surveillance sub-systems. The runway status lights may include Departure and Approach Warning Lights (DALs) to indicate runway status to aircraft taking off from the runway and landing on the runway, or Runway Entrance Lights (RELs) to indicate runway status to aircraft, vehicles, and pedestrians preparing to cross a runway.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AVIATION RUNWAY INCURSION AVOIDANCE
2024-10-31
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS |
Synthetic Vision Databases for Runway Incursion Avoidance
SAE Technical Papers | 2001
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