Hello World!
This book project is my challenge for 2017. Thus, what you are looking at is a draft that will materialise throughout the year (and beyond). This online repository comprises the most recent state of this development to encourage comments and/or suggestions. For any immediated feedback or recommendations, please send an email at rainer.koelle@eurocontrol.int.
The principal aim is to bring together topic presentations and lectures I gave on Operational Performance in Air Navigation. I started working for the EUROCONTROL Performance Review Unit in late 2013. While having an operational background with experience in aviation and air traffic control, I had to venture into various fields to get a better grip on my day-to-day subject. This journey included and continues to include daily discussions about concepts, approaches, methodologies, and ultimately metrics for performance measurement.
One of - my personal - key lessons learnt from these discussions is that there exists no shortage on varying numerical approaches while the conceptual approach and the associated terminology is frequently fuzzy or ill-adopted. Discussions typically revolve around the potential weakness of a metric, not included factors, or other perceived shortcomings.
Over time, a steady collection of personal notes developed supporting me in my day-to-day job. Realising that there is no reference book on Operational ANS Performance, this project is an attempt to pull these discussions and notes together.
I make no committment as regards the end of this project. I have a busy job and family life, and enjoy quite some other spare time activities. The committment for 2017 however is to establish a solid foundation for a text on Operational ANS Performance.
The work here is licensed under the Creative Commons License 4.0 Attribution Share-Alike. In short the license says that you can share and adopt the material (even for commercial purposes) given that you give appropriate credit and share your contributions under the same license.
Now, let us reset the timers and check how far we get in 2017 !!!
The current online version.