A NEW SYSTEMS ANALYSIS: PERSPECTIVES ON SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS AND REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PROOF-OF-CONCEPT STUDY

摘要

In aerospace, systems analysis generally refers to the process whereby systems (typically technologies and/or aircraft configurations) are evaluated in order to determine their appropriateness to a given operating environment. We propose that a new version of systems analysis is needed that, while having the same general purpose, possesses the ability to expand the scope to a system-of-systems setting. In this expanded (and increasingly more relevant) setting, the focus of analysis is on multiple systems that interact in a dynamic, multi-layered, heterogeneous environment. In this paper, the differences between the traditional and new system analysis are articulated. Since the system-of-systems approach for analysis has been documented in the literature, in this paper we instead focus on a proof-of-concept study treating regional air transportation.