Peculiarities of heart rate variability in personnel air-traffic control service

2008 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 246 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.A. Apykhtin
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Control Service

A.T.C. and the Civil Airline Operator

1961 ◽  
Vol 65 (606) ◽  
pp. 397-399
Author(s):  
A. E. Slocombe
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
European Region ◽  
Control Service

This paper deals primarily with Air Traffic Control in the European region and does not refer to problems specific to other areas. Nevertheless, most of these problems are common to all regions and differ only in degree. Their solution depends upon the existence of a properly organised and equipped Air Traffic Control Service and there is now world-wide recognition by users and providers alike that such a service is an essential element in the ordered development of aviation.

scholarly journals Cardiovascular Biomarkers’ Inherent Timescales in Mental Workload Assessment During Simulated Air Traffic Control Tasks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thea Radüntz ◽  
Thorsten Mühlhausen ◽  
Marion Freyer ◽  
Norbert Fürstenau ◽  
Beate Meffert
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Time Slot ◽  
Mental Workload ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Band Ratio ◽  
Cardiovascular Biomarkers

Abstract One central topic in ergonomics and human-factors research is the assessment of mental workload. Heart rate and heart rate variability are common for registering mental workload. However, a major problem of workload assessment is the dissociation among different workload measures. One potential reason could be the disregard of their inherent timescales and the interrelation between participants’ individual differences and timescales. The aim of our study was to determine if different cardiovascular biomarkers exhibit different timescales. We focused on air traffic controller and investigated biomarkers’ ability to distinguish between conditions with different load levels connected to prior work experience and different time slots. During an interactive real-time simulation, we varied the load situations with two independent variables: the traffic volume and the occurrence of a priority-flight request. Dependent variables for registering mental workload were the heart rate and heart rate variability from two time slots. Our results show that all cardiovascular biomarkers were sensitive to workload differences with different inherent timescales. The heart rate responded sooner than the heart rate variability features from the frequency domain and it was most indicative during the time slot immediately after the priority-flight request. The heart rate variability parameters from the frequency domain responded with latency and were most indicative during the subsequent time slot. Furthermore, by consideration of biomarkers’ inherent timescales, we were able to assess a significant effect of work experience on heart rate and mid/high frequency-band ratio of the heart rate variability. Results indicated that different cardiovascular biomarkers reveal different inherent timescales.

scholarly journals System of AFIS Officer for Air Navigation Service providers

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Pavel Kopp ◽  
Jakub Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Training System ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
National Audit ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Navigation Service ◽  
Control Service

This paper focuses on the provision of the Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS) in the Czech Republic. It examines the functioning and the requirements on the AFIS from the view of the national audit office. Specially, it examines current requirements for the training system of new AFIS officers. Based on these findings, and by comparing the AFIS with Air traffic control service (ATC), the author of the article attempts to assess whether the current training system and the requirements for the applicants are sufficient by comparing the AFIS with the Air traffic control service. The result of the analysis is the presentation of hypotheses concerning new proposals and recommendations that could be adopted to the training and regulatory framework in accordance to the fact, that AFIS belongs to Air traffic services ATS.

Air Traffic Control Today and Tomorrow

1953 ◽  
Vol 57 (509) ◽  
pp. 301-317
Author(s):  
V. A. M. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Present Purpose ◽  
Control Service

Air Traffic Control is an all-embracing term and on occasion there is some doubt about its scope. For the present purpose it will be as defined within the internationally agreed principles set out in Annex 11 to the International Civil Aviation Convention. Here it is set out that the Air Traffic Control service is for:– (i)Expediting and maintaining an orderly flow of air traffic.(ii)Preventing collision between aircraft.(iii)Providing advice and information useful for the sake of efficient conduct of flights.(iv)Preventing collision on the manoeuvring area between aircraft and obstructions.(v)Notifying the appropriate organisations regarding aircraft in need of search and rescue and to assist such organisations as required.

Air Traffic Control Separation Minima and Navigational Capability

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-456
Author(s):  
A. White
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Navigational Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
Consequent Improvement ◽  
Control Service

During the past twenty-five years the aviation scene has progressed from one in which relatively small numbers of aircraft flew from point of origin to destination with the guidance afforded by very limited M/F range facilities and a great deal of individual navigational skill on the part of the operating crews. Air traffic control functioned only as a means of sorting out the order of take-off and landing. Moving forward to the present we see the already high density traffic serving the population centres of the world continuing to increase at a rate of around 10 per cent per annum. Both station referenced and self-contained navigational systems proliferate and control of traffic must be almost total if collision accidents are to be avoided. During the same time period aircraft speeds have increased threefold and necessitated a consequent improvement in the ability of the air traffic control service to react quickly and precisely to any conflict situations, either by detection in the strategic/planning case or resolution in the tactical frame by direct intervention before critical situations can develop.

The Impact of Workload on Heart Rate and Blood Pressure in En-Route and Tower Air Traffic Control

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Vogt ◽  
Tim Hagemann ◽  
Michael Kastner
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Systolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Ambulatory Monitoring ◽  
Cardiovascular Responses ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Impact

This paper reports three studies on the application of ambulatory monitoring in air traffic control (ATC). The aim of the first study was to explore a set of psychophysiological measures with respect to ATC workload sensitivity and feasibility at the workplace. Nearly all physiological measures showed the expected changes during work. Significant positive correlations were found between cardiovascular responses and the number of aircraft under control, especially heavy, fast, climbing, and descending aircraft. The following en-route (Study 2) and tower (Study 3) simulations identified the relative impact of air traffic features. Heart rate, systolic blood pressure, self-reported concentration, and upset were significantly higher in the simulations with 12 aircraft continuously under control compared to only 6. A high versus low number of potential conflicts between aircraft in the en-route setting (Study 2) also caused significant increases of heart rate, systolic blood pressure, self-reported concentration, and upset. On the basis of these results, a new workload model for air traffic controllers was suggested and implemented.

Air Traffic Control and the Relative Position Indicator

1958 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
R. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Collision Warning ◽  
Post War ◽  
Position Indicator ◽  
Control Service ◽  
Warning Device

The post-war development of air transport has temporarily out-paced the ability of the air traffic control service to provide for safe conduct which is always expeditious, and it has certainly out-moded the concept of visual avoidance. To alleviate the situation in the areas of high-density traffic in the United States, the Air Transport Association of America outlined a requirement for an airborne collision warning device.

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