Air Transport System Agility : The Agile Response Capability (ARC) Methodology for Crisis Preparedness
(2022) In Infrastructures 7(2).- Abstract
Aviation is a highly inter-connected system. This means that a problem in one area may cause effects in other countries or parts of the Air Transport System (ATS). Examples range from local air traffic disruptions to the 2010 volcanic ash crisis. Agility, like resilience, refers to the ability to cope with dynamics and complexity in a flexible manner, by adjusting and adapting performance and the organization of work to fit changing demands. The aim of this work is to help ATS organizations with increasing their agility in the face of crises and challenges. To this end, this article presents the Agile Response Capability (ARC) guidance material. ARC was developed from a literature study and a number of case studies that combined past... (More)
Aviation is a highly inter-connected system. This means that a problem in one area may cause effects in other countries or parts of the Air Transport System (ATS). Examples range from local air traffic disruptions to the 2010 volcanic ash crisis. Agility, like resilience, refers to the ability to cope with dynamics and complexity in a flexible manner, by adjusting and adapting performance and the organization of work to fit changing demands. The aim of this work is to help ATS organizations with increasing their agility in the face of crises and challenges. To this end, this article presents the Agile Response Capability (ARC) guidance material. ARC was developed from a literature study and a number of case studies that combined past event analysis, interviews, focus groups, workshops, questionnaires, and exercise observation methodologies. ARC aims to help aviation organizations to set up, run, and evaluate exercises promoting agility to handle disturbances and crises, and to enable structured pro-active and retrospective analysis of scenarios and actual events. The elements and steps of the ARC approach are illustrated and exemplified with data from three case studies. The ARC methodology facilitates more agile and resilient ways of responding to the fundamental and novel surprises that have become almost commonplace in the past decade, and are likely to continue to do so.
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- author
- Woltjer, Rogier LU ; Johansson, Björn J.E. ; Oskarsson, Per Anders ; Svenmarck, Peter and Kirwan, Barry
- publishing date
- 2022-02
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Agility, Aviation, Crisis management, Crisis preparedness, Resilience
- in
- Infrastructures
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 11 pages
- publisher
- MDPI AG
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85123909416
- ISSN
- 2412-3811
- DOI
- 10.3390/infrastructures7020011
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: Funding: The research leading to these results received funding from Horizon 2020 the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020/2014-2020) under grant agreement No. 640597, in the project Future Sky Safety, P5 Resolving the Organisational Accident, work package WP5.4 Agile Response Capability. Funding was also contributed by the “Swedish Co-operation Platform (Samverkansplattform) H2020 Secure Societies”, funded by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and operated by FOI. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and are not intended to represent the position or opinions of the Future Sky Safety consortium or any of the partner organizations or the funding agencies; the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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title = {{Air Transport System Agility : The Agile Response Capability (ARC) Methodology for Crisis Preparedness}},
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