Case Study: Boeing improves flight operational safety analysis with Wolfram Mathematica

Boeing - Customer Case Study

Boeing needed to develop quantitative models to analyze the safety of new flight operation concepts and create compelling cases for regulators. Their challenge was to find a way to reliably quantify the tradeoffs between an airplane's navigational capabilities and the risk of a near miss or collision in various scenarios.

Using Wolfram's Mathematica, Boeing was able to generate airplane trajectories and run complex statistical simulations within a single environment. This solution from Wolfram enabled the creation of 3D models to analyze how different parameters affect flight paths, putting safety discussions on a firm quantitative basis. As a result, Boeing's team gained better insight and confidence in the results, allowing them to make well-informed decisions about moving forward with new operational concepts.

Boeing

Mike Ulrey

Advanced Air Traffic Management