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Following a serendipitous BBC’s invitation to comment drone’s intrusion at Heathrow airport in De... more Following a serendipitous BBC’s invitation to comment drone’s intrusion at Heathrow airport in December 2014, I identified drone operations and challenges as one area of my research. Consequently, my interest extended to drones’ potential application in the KS2 school curriculum as a platform for delivering advanced STEM understanding. That resulted in the award of Industrial Strategy Seed Fund (ISSF) funding of 15,000 GBP for the project DRONEaBILITY™ in 2017. Now I want to generate further synergetic effect and impact on society and industry based on UWL diverse set of schools and academics (e.g. aviation, computer sciences, psychology, education).

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Papers by Ivan Sikora

Human Factors in Transportation

Black Hole Illusion (BHI) is the cause of a significant number of fatal aviation accidents, Contr... more Black Hole Illusion (BHI) is the cause of a significant number of fatal aviation accidents, Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) events due to “lack of vertical and/or horizontal position awareness in relation to terrain” [1] and is listed as an “environmental threat”, owning a specific section in annual worldwide safety reports [2] [3]. To date, relevant studies focused on whether and how much a single factor affects the pilot’s disorientation, whereas this study considers all the known factors plus runway illumination levels in the same simulation. The simulations conducted in these studies involved one pilot each time and were conducted with a single computer screen and a joystick or in a non-movable fixed-base simulator whereas this study aims to explore BHI in the realistic environment of a movable airline-approved A-320 full-flight simulator with a real-life aircraft cockpit operated by two pilots (captain and first officer). We examine all the factors that have been thus far...

10. mednarodni znanstveno-strokovni simpozij o elektroniki v prometu (ISEP 2002) : bornik referatov = 10th International scientific-technical Symposium on Electronics in Traffic (ISEP 2002) : proceedings, 2002

Transportation engineering, Sep 1, 2023

Organizational learning in tourism and hospitality crisis management, 2021

Skup o prometnim sustavima s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem Automatizacija u prometu (22 ; 2002), 2002

Airlines and other aircraft operators differ in their structure depending on each organization’ s... more Airlines and other aircraft operators differ in their structure depending on each organization’ s size and the type of services it provides. Core departments, to every airline or aircraft operator, are Flight Operations Department and Engineering Department. Business logistics of an airline consist of numerous distinctive activities and functions. They have to be planned and completed in synchronization. The paper will discuss information technology and digital documentation formats for the support of these activities in a medium sized airline. Authors will show how the approach to documentation management has evolved. Changes introduced in recent years that were made possible using Internet will be presented. This will be followed by the presentation of systems and conceptual framework adopted by today’ s airlines and aircraft manufacturers towards their documentation distribution and management activities supported by digital formats and Internet.

6. mednarodno znanstveno-strokovno posvetovanje o prometni znanosti (ICTS 2002) : zbornik referatov = 6th International Conference on Traffic Science (ICTS 2002) : proceedings, Jul 1, 2017

The security concept of the management process implies individual safety of every single element ... more The security concept of the management process implies individual safety of every single element within it, in order to prevent the system disturbance or failure due to a single element event. Each and every element of the system should be independent from any other element and the system as a whole. Hence, security concept is applicable primarily to internal factors of danger. The application of advanced information technologies has major impact on passengers handling at any airport. This paper analyses the application of IT during passenger and baggage handling processes at the Split Airport and suggests solution in which the security control of passengers and hand baggage follows immediately after the passenger check-in procedure.

International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, 2020

Increased cockpit automation on modern jet aircraft aim to reduce the risk of Undesired Aircraft ... more Increased cockpit automation on modern jet aircraft aim to reduce the risk of Undesired Aircraft State (UAS) instances such as Loss of Control in Flight (LOC-I). Although LOC-I globally accounts for only 9% of all analysed accidents IATA has reported that it was responsible for 58% of all accident fatalities in 2017. The focus of this paper is to answer whether Threat and Error Management and Crew Resources Management (CRM) techniques are an efficient risk management tool when facing a LOC-I threat. Three LOC-I final aircraft accident reports were analysed to understand the structure of Human Factors (HF) during these flights. Methods from the HF field such as the Generic Error Modelling System (GEMS) and Skill-, Rule-and Knowledge-based (SRK) error approach provided invaluable insights to identify potential findings. A holistic investigation of cognitive structures in flight path management helped to visualise latent conditions and cognitively demanding tasks during LOC-I in routine operations. Bearing in mind the limited number of cases considered in this paper it should be considered as an overview in LOC-I accident analysis. It shows that leadership and teamwork, as essential aspects of CRM training, can serve as key strategies to mitigate HF problems and LOC-I risks.

Copyright & reuse City University London has developed City Research Online so that its users may... more Copyright & reuse City University London has developed City Research Online so that its users may access the research outputs of City University London's staff. Copyright © and Moral Rights for this paper are retained by the individual author(s) and / or other copyright holders. All material in City Research Online is checked for eligibility for copyright before being made available in the live archive. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to from other web pages. Versions of research The version in City Research Online may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check the Permanent City Research Online URL above for the status of the paper. Enquiries If you have any enquiries about any aspect of City Research Online, or if you wish to make contact

Safety and Risk are in the focus of the constant research ranging from strictly technical and tec... more Safety and Risk are in the focus of the constant research ranging from strictly technical and technological to organisational influence. The increase of system’s complexity and the shift of errors from purely mechanical to human and organisational has hampered the study and the prediction of accident probability. This paper reviews the literature for the Safety Management System (SMS) in aviation for their ability to account for the complex dynamics from which safety in these kinds of systems tends to emerge – or not. After this, it evaluates existing risk assessment modelling so as to assess the ‘status’ – or analytical strength – in this domain. The shortcomings of those models are presented to identify potential effective model’s elements in relation to assessed the body of literature and current complex socio-technological systems present in air transportation system and other High Risk Organisation.

Although there are different aircraft manufecturers and hence different practical solutions, ther... more Although there are different aircraft manufecturers and hence different practical solutions, there is one bottom line in automation. In aviation automation is only complement to humans. It is not present to challenge the pilot's role and responsibility. The use of new technologies and implementation of new functionality are dictated only by: significant safety benefits, obvious operational advantages, and clear response to the pilot's needs and operational factors influencing his functioning. The paper will discuss different approaches to automation related to flight operations in aviations. The paper intends to demonstrate how different manufacturers' approaches follows quite similar ideas in different automated system designs. The paper does not intend to give any final say when choosing one concept or the other. That is the matter of different circumstances requiring more justifying space and different criteria than the pure scientific one.

Aviation as a multitude of activities is meant to satisfy needs of its customers to overcome dist... more Aviation as a multitude of activities is meant to satisfy needs of its customers to overcome distance and time between any departure and arrival point in the world. Airlines and other aircraft operators (governments, armed forces, general aviation, and business aviation) differ in their structure depending on their size and services they provide. Some departments are to be found in larger airlines only. However, core departments, to every airline or aircraft operator, are flight operations department and engineering department. Sophistication and the size of these departments depend on the size of the system they are incorporated in. Business logistics of an airline consist of numerous distinctive activities and functions. These activities have to be planned and completed in synchronisation. The paper presents an overview to intelligent systems for the support to these activities with particular stress on flight operations and maintenance functions in a medium sized airline. Authors...