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Air Projects

Transportation Development Centre

TDC’s air transportation program is designed to improve the safety, efficiency, and competitiveness of Canadian aviation. It focusses on:

  • work in support of federal policy decisions
  • cooperative activities to ensure harmonization of international aviation R&D
  • studies to provide a basis for the development of regulations and standards for crew training and operations, as well as for materials and equipment
  • development of innovative technologies, equipment, and research expertise in advanced concepts and meteorology
  • development of technological means to improve accident prevention and survivability
  • investigation of operations in Canada’s severe winter conditions
  • development of improvements to airport operations, from runway management to advanced air navigation systems
  • studies of human factors in all areas of aviation

Policy Support

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Airport environment gas emission evaluation tool
  • Evaluation of bird hazard
  • Sustainable transportation technologies – forecast and framework for action

Navigation and Communications

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • GPS advanced aviation navigation program
  • Study of APEC satellite navigation and communications systems

Regulation and Standards: Crew Training

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Assessment of aircraft maintenance engineers' hours of work
  • Assessment of pilot fatigue
  • Development and implementation of fatigue risk management systems for aviation maintenance and aircraft operators
  • Fatigue risk assessment of aircraft maintenance tasks
  • Pilot fatigue – assessment and countermeasures

Regulation and Standards: Material and Structural Integrity

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Aircraft inspection system – Phase 3
  • Aircraft inspection system – one-person operation

Regulation and Standards: Accident Prevention and Survivability

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • 406 MHz beacon locating device
  • 406 MHz Beacon tester
  • 406 MHz ELT
  • Aircraft cabin/fire safety program
  • Aircraft landing operations on wet runways
  • Airport bird detection system
  • Benefit-cost analysis of changes in accountability for landing on wet runways
  • Child safety system – Phase 2
  • Cockpit voice recorder explosion analysis
  • Development of a low-cost 406 MHz emergency locator transmitter (ELT)
  • Feasibility of total aircraft performance modelling based on flight data monitoring
  • Flight data monitoring
  • GPS chipset integration
  • Integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) information into an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)
  • Location of flight recorders
  • Reducing the cost of 406 MHz emergency locator transmitters (ELTs)

Regulation and Standards: Winter Operations

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

Aircraft Anti-Icing Fluid Endurance, Holdover, And Failure Times Under Winter Precipitation Conditions: A Glossary Of Terms (TP 13832)

Canadian Runway Friction Index


  • Aircraft ground de/anti-icing research program
  • Automated system for monitoring the condition of runway surfaces
  • Joint Winter Runway Friction Measurement Program
  • Standards and performance criteria for continuous friction measuring equipment and decelerometers

RELATED RESEARCH

TP 14608E, Data collection and analysis to advance the development of an Airport Deicer Management System (ADMS) Model, APS Aviation Inc., 2005
   Volume 1: Fluid tracked away data
   Volume 2: Fluid drip rate data
   Volume 3: Fluid blown away data

Air Traffic Control

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Runway incursion – airfield movement control and monitoring systems
  • Wake vortex prediction

Work Stations and Human-Machine Interfaces

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • ATC shiftwork and overtime – Phase 2
  • Fatigue in air traffic controllers: literature review
Date modified:
2012-05-03