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o I ntroductions made around the room. · Runway Safety M etrics o James Fee, AJI - 1400, explained that there will be new runway safety metrics coming in 2018. These metrics will be risk - based and more reflective of risk in the NAS as compared to our current metrics. · Runway Safety Council o Runway Stat us Lights (RWSL) § Discussion on Runway Status Lights research and how to use voice recognition, ASDE - X, and other technologies to enhance effectiveness of RWSL system. § Commercial runway incursions (RI) are defined as Part 121, 129 and scheduled 13 5. § General Aviation (GA) RIs are Part 91, 91K, and non - scheduled/charter 135 operations. § There continues to be increasing GA Part 91 Pilot Deviation (PD) RI events. § Steve Jangelis (SJ) – parallel runways are a frequent location of RIs, we co ntinue to see these happening, several have occurred recently at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW). § SJ – Fatigue and night time operations are an issue with Part 121 air carrier operations with regards to RIs. § SJ – Hear - back, read - back issues continue to happen, possible factor is the fact that the communications in cockpit are typically conducted by the First Officer (co - pilot) not the Captain. Need more vigilance/involvement of the Captain when ground communications are taking place to ensure correct i nformation is exchanged (i.e. clearances for take - off, taxing across runways, etc.). § SJ – Coded taxi instructions by ATC could help pilots and ATC by providing the entire taxi route in one simple taxi clearance (example, Delta cleared for Taxi Green 1 route at ATL). § Ben Marple (BM, ANG) – The following airports did not want to pursue deployment of RWSL systems when initial program was launched a few years ago, including: Atlanta (ATL), Philadelphia (PHL), and Denver (DEN). Risk Based Runway Safet y Metrics § Firdu Bati presented the risk based runway safety model that AJI - 333 has been working on for the last year. This effort is using both FAA and NTSB data for accidents and runway incursions. The data goes back to 1982 from the NTSB database. § Risk weighting chart shows all data sets. § Chris Pokorski (CP, AVP) – Asked question on Towered vs. Non - Towered airports, there are different data collected at these airports, with most of the runway safety (RI) data only collected at Towered ai rports. Need to consider this fact when looking at the NTSB data as compared to FAA data. § Fatalities since 1982 after study of the collision events found to have a higher risk for fatalities.