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CASE STUDY
Airport Safety Data Collection Program
Client
Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) commissioned GCR to develop a web-based application that allows federal and state airport inspectors to transmit safety inspection data over a secured Internet application. The core record set comprised of an inventory of over 256 data elements for each of the over 5,340 public-use airports in the United States and in US territories. The challenge in this project was to completely re-engineer the transmittal process of airport inspection data from a manual operation (US postal service or facsimile) to a secured web-based transmittal process. The web application designed by GCR (5010Web.com) provides the vehicle for the inspection information to flow from individual state and federal airport inspectors to FAA headquarters while also allowing for an internal review of inspection data, consisting of source verification and consistency with FAA standards, prior to its final transmission to the FAA.
To improve the efficiency of the collection of all airport inspection data, GCR expanded the capabilities of the program to allow the inspectors to enter data on the over 15,000 private-use airports in the FAA system. Other additions to 5010Web.com have allowed for Airport District personnel access as well as new screens and streamlined processes for submitting details and supporting documentation for changes to an airport’s name and associated city, and to request the re-activation of a previously abandoned airport.
Since 2004, GCR has also assumed the FAA’s responsibility for the Airport Safety Data Program which consists of collecting and compensating state aviation departments for field inspections of their public-use airports. States, through the FAA grant issued to GCR, have benefited from this program resulting from unit price per inspection increases, 100% funding (no state match), and drastic reductions in time and complexity of contractual and reimbursement processes.
GCR also maintains registration of over 200 certified state and federal airport inspectors on a quarterly basis while annually designing and arranging training seminars in FAA Form 5010-1 airport inspection procedures at established locations in various regions of the country.
As such, GCR became the single vehicle for collection of airport safety data in the United States.
