Estimating the impact of airport wildlife hazards management on realized wildlife strike risk.

ABSTRACT: Collisions between wildlife and aircraft, commonly referred to as wildlife strikes or bird strikes, are rare events that pose considerable safety and economic risks to the aviation industry. Given the potentially dramatic consequences of such events, airports scheduled for passenger service are required to conduct wildlife hazard assessments and implement wildlife hazard management plans for the purpose of mitigating wildlife strike risk. The evaluation of such management, however, is complicated by imperfect reporting that mediates the relationship between realized wildlife strike risk and wildlife strike metrics. In this paper, we shed light on such phenomena by investigating the staggered adoption of a federal wildlife hazards management program at joint-use airports across the contiguo

SUBMITTER: Altringer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11584785 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature