Abstract
Fatigue is a safety risk in aviation because of performance deficits in flight crews that have been shown to be correlated with decreased levels of alertness. At FedEx, owing to the around-the-clock and across-time-zones nature of its air operations, the development of a science-based system for tracking and managing fatigue risk and overall pilot alertness promises to improve the company's safety margin and operational flexibility going forward. To improve upon proactively implemented fatigue-limiting scheduling policies, FedEx is developing science-based rostering and scheduling software to further minimize fatigue risk and enhance alertness in its global air operations network. This paper outlines the development process for this software and discusses how model-based fatigue and alertness prediction will integrate into FedEx's operational and scheduling processes. Once validated and implemented, the software model endeavors to improve both scheduling performance and pilot alertness, thereby enhancing ...
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