# Presentation: 947588

## Dallas/Fort Worth International AirportFAA Southwest Region Runway Incursion Safety Summit

- April 23, 2008

## Initiatives underway at DFW  

- Call to Action
- Runway Status Lights
- Perimeter Taxiway
- Runway Safety Campaign
- Escort Procedures

## Runway Safety Call to ActionShort Term  

- Acquire 8 Driving Simulators
- Completed
- Produce DFW Airfield Maps, Checklists and Hot Spot maps
- Airfield Maps and Checklists – Completed
- Working with FAA on Hot Spot
- Identify locations for surface painted holding position signs
- Completed

## Runway Safety Call to ActionIntermediate Term   

- Lighting AA aircraft under tow by Goldhofer Tug FAA Runway Safety Call to Action
- In progress
- Enhance AOA driver training
- In progress
- Install remaining surface painted holding position signs
- Completed

## Runway Safety Call to ActionLong Term   

**Installation and operational use of Runway Status Lights (RWSL) on 17R/35L, 17C/35C, and 18R/36L**
- In progress at 17R/35L and 17C/35C
**Publish standardized taxi routes**
- On going discussion with FAA ATCT
**Acquisition and implementation of a computer system to enhance the AOA badge system**
- Not started
**Accelerate the process of perimeter taxiways**
- In progress
**Install runway location signs at each runway end and at normally used intersecting departures points**
- Discussions underway** **

## Runway Safety InitiativeRunway Status Lights

**Perimeter Taxiway Project**

**RWSL Project**

**RWSL – Completed**

## Perimeter Taxiway ProjectBackground

- FAA Southwest Region and DFW Airport have been working on perimeter taxiways for over sixteen years
- FAA identified Perimeter Taxiways as safety project for AIP Discretionary Funding
- Concept was successfully demonstrated using Future Flight Central at NASA Ames - February 2003
- Statements of support received from many organizations (NATCA, ALPA, APA, etc.)
- Projected completion: December 2008

- Working on SE Quadrant

## Runway Safety Campaign

- Increase Airfield Situational Awareness across Airport community
- Educate Airport community on new Runway Incursion definition

## Runway Safety Campaign

- Developed Executive Communication/Manager’s Brief
- Produced Slogan Posters for Airport Community Work Centers
- Working with FAA on updating and publishing Airfield “Hotspot” maps
- Placed Airfield maps and sign/marking placards in all vehicles that operate in the movement area

## Runway Safety CampaignSlogan Poster

## Escort Procedures

- Focus on Communication and Situational Awareness
- Developed for Construction and General Escorts
- Objective is to increase airfield safety while conducting escorts for construction projects and general escorts on the AOA, especially in the Aircraft Movement Area and reduce the risk of runway incursions

## ALWAYS FOLLOW ESCORT!

**FOLLOW YOUR ESCORT UNTIL YOU REACH THIS SET OF CONES.  THIS**
**IS THE **_**RELEASE**_** AND **_**PICK UP**_** POINT.**

**Follow your DFW Escort closely to the construction Release point.**
- Yield to Aircraft
- If lost or separated, **STOP!**, then call Airport Operations at 972-973-3112

**ALWAYS FOLLOW ESCORT!**

**RELEASE / PICK UP POINT**

_**NOTICE!**_

## ¡SIEMPRE SIGE A SU ACOMPAÑAMIENTO!

**SIGE A SU ACOMPAÑAMIENTO HASTA QUE USTED ALCANZA ESTE**
**SISTEMA DE CONOS.  ÉSTE ES EL PUNTO DE **_**RECOGER**_** Y **_**DESPEDIR**_**.**

**EL PUNTO DE RECOGER Y DESPEDIR**

_**¡AVISO!**_

**¡SIEMPRE SIGE A SU ACOMPAÑAMIENTO!**

**Sige a su acompañamiento de DFW cerca hasta que llegen el punto de recoger y despedir.**
- Rinda al Avión
- Si usted se pierde o separa, **¡ALTO!,** entonces llame a 972-973-3112.

## NOTICE!

- Yield to Aircraft.
- If lost or separated, _**STOP!**__,_ then call the Airport Operations Center at 972-973-3112

_**ALWAYS FOLLOW ESCORT!**_

_**NOTICE!**_

***Effective 02-10-08***

## ¡AVISO!

_**¡SIEMPRE SIGA A SU ESCOLTA!**_

**Siga a su escolta de DFW de cerca hasta que llegen al punto de dispersión**
- De paso a los Aviónes.
- Si se pierde o separa, _**¡PARE!,**_ y llame al Departamento de Operaciones del Aeropuerto, 972-973-3112.

*** ******Efectiva****** 02-10-08***