ABSTRACT

This chapter shows that air transport can benefit significantly from the study of resilience from the perspective of complexity science. Civil air transport is an example of a large and complex socio-technical system. It comprises interactions between different types of entities, including technical systems, operational stakeholders, regulators, and consumers. Meanwhile, viability theory and stochastic reachability analysis are particularly adept at allowing researchers to model and analyse the various forms of uncertainty in air transport, and can be applied in both agent-based and network-based models. The chapter provides a systematic study of what complexity science has to offer to the study of resilience in future air transport for the various types of consequence. It explores that a complexity science approach to resilience in air transport has significant potential to both strengthen and broaden the resilience engineering approach of.