Wed, Mar 02, 2011
Predicts Fatigue Levels For Airline Crew Members
A web-based service for quickly assessing predicted fatigue
levels while determining airline crew schedules has been released
by Jeppesen. The online Jeppesen Crew Fatigue Assessment Service is
available to airlines of all sizes and represents the latest in a
series of solutions from Jeppesen to help the commercial aviation
industry prevent and mitigate fatigue risk in crew operations.
The Jeppesen Crew Fatigue Assessment Service allows airlines to
submit their crew schedules for analysis using scientific
prediction models such as the Boeing Alertness Model. Through a
simple web interface, subscribers to the service – typically
crew scheduling departments and safety departments at airlines
– are able to upload the crew schedules for evaluation by
Jeppesen, receiving both overall statistics and detailed fatigue
assessment reports within minutes.
The upload process can be automated and integrated with most
commercial aviation scheduling solutions available for operators.
The scientific results are used by airlines to identify fatigue
risk in all steps of the crew management process, including
avoidance of crew scheduling patterns that enhance the risk of
fatigue. The web-based service also coordinates with the
performance results of an airline’s Fatigue Risk Management
System.
“Providing Fatigue Risk Management tools online for
airline operators now makes it possible to apply knowledge gained
from sleep science research to crew planning and operations in a
quick and cost-efficient manner,” said Tim Huegel, director,
Jeppesen Portfolio Management, Aviation. “We believe that the
web-based Jeppesen Crew Fatigue Assessment Service contains
unprecedented fatigue risk analysis capabilities. This new
web-based service, combined with a user-friendly interface that
works with Boeing Alertness Model prediction functionality,
provides a unique solution that promotes and enhances overall
safety for the airline crew industry.”
The new Crew Fatigue Assessment Service compliments other
Jeppesen services that help airlines mitigate the effects of crew
fatigue. The Jeppesen Crew Management System suite includes crew
pairing, rostering, tracking and day-of-operation disruption
management functions. Jeppesen crew planning products interface and
provide optimization functions for Boeing Alertness Model and other
industry alertness models that make use of the Common Alertness
Prediction Interface system for crew planning. This interface
provides essential information for an operator’s safety
management system.
CrewAlert, a related Apple iPhone mobile App by Jeppesen, makes it
possible for schedulers and crew members to more easily integrate
sleep science principles. The iPhone App also collects actual
alertness data to be used for improving Fatigue Risk Management
System operations and to improve modeling for crew schedules.
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