ACI World Safety & Technical Standing Committee

The committee covers airport planning, design and development; airspace and airport capacity; physical characteristics of runways, taxiways and aprons, aircraft/airport compatibility issues, including the impact of new large aircraft (NLA); visual aids for navigation; future air navigation systems; airport equipment and installations; safety management; operational safety, including runway and apron safety; aerodrome emergency planning; rescue and fire-fighting; and the removal of disabled aircraft. Its work especially relates to ICAO Annex 14 (Aerodromes).

Current issues include pavement strength for aircraft with six-wheel main landing gear, technical benchmarking, life cycle maintenance management, technical impact of low cost carriers, energy and water usage, new airfield lighting technology, runway end safety areas and arrester beds, runway friction, runway incursion prevention, airfield capacity, and safety management systems.

Chair:
Brett Patterson (Vancouver)

Vice-Chair:
P.P. Singh (New Delhi)

Past Chair: 
Bryan Thompson (Melbourne) 
Julieanne Alroe (Brisbane)

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
Africa:
Samir Helmy (EHCAAN Egypt)
Brahim Lakhlifi (ONDA, Morocco)
Asia Pacific:
Eun Byul Kim (Incheon, Korea) 
Smael Banse (AIG, Jordan) 
Europe:
Ian Witter (BAA)
Anders Ledin (Swedavia)
Latin America-Carribean:
Jurgen Benschop (Aruba)
(vacant)
North America:
Ian Redhead (Kansas City)
Sam Sleiman (Massport, Boston)

Members at Large            World Business Partners (5 Places)
Bircher, Daniel (Bangalore)            Lary, Jo (Pavement Consultants Inc)
Christensen, Thomas Lau (Copenhagen)            Hui, Keith (HOK)
Gannot, Yair (Israel)            Adams, Peter (Aviation Strategies Int'l)
Geukens, Dirk (Brussels)            Duffy, Thomas B. (Safegate)
Goodwin, Stephen (Brisbane)            Pérez y Gil de la Serna, Juan Manuel
Gruber, Gerhard (Vienna)           
Iannaccone, Sergio (Rome) 
Jung, Changmok (Korea Airports Corp)
Maingon, Bruno (ADP)            ACI Staff
McLauchlin, Andrew (Cayman Islands)                David Gamper (ACI World)
Meerman, Dick (Schiphol)            Gudjon Atlason (ACI World)
Miyada, Luiz Kazumi (Brasil)            Jonghoon Kim (ACI World)
Molloy, Daniel (Abu Dhabi)           
O’Krongley, Tim (San Antonio)
Rishi Thakurdin (ACSA - South Africa)
Romig, Thomas (Geneva)
Sullivan, Jennifer (Toronto)
Yamamoto, Yutaka (Narita Int'l Airport)

 

Board Liaison:
Rutten, Ad (Amsterdam)


Regional Office Observers: 
Eichinger, Anders (ACI Europe)

Martinez, Javier (ACI LAC)
Oswald, Chris (ACI NA)
Tounsi, Ali (ACI Africa)
Wong, Shun-Leung (ACI Asia-Pacific)