The Long-term Plan for Air Traffic Control

1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-294
Author(s):  
V. A. M. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Supersonic Aircraft ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Traffic Control System

This paper by the Director of Control and Navigation at the Ministry of Aviation, reviews the present state of planning for air traffic control in the United Kingdom. It indicates that whilst progress is evolutionary and continuous, big steps take place approximately every ten years. The author concentrates on four principal facets of air traffic control which cause the most acute problems, namely the medium-haul operations in densely populated areas; the terminal problem; long-distance operations over the Atlantic; and low-level, short routes in the south-east of England.The paper outlines the basic air traffic control system of the future and indicates the ways that data processing and radar may be used. It makes a short reference to the specific problems of the supersonic aircraft and concludes by referring to two principal experimental projects now in hand to enhance our knowledge of data processing with respect to air traffic control.

Assessment of string tests strategy for an en route air traffic control system

2008 ◽  
Vol XXVIII (1) ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Jeff O'Leary ◽  
Frederick Woodard ◽  
Alok Srivastava ◽  
Denise S. Beidleman
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Traffic Control System

Redisign of the Air Traffic Control System-Moving People through Distributed Management

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 485-485
Author(s):  
John G. Kreifeldt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Critical Function ◽  
Congressional Hearings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Traffic Control System

The present national Air Traffic Control system is a ground-centralized, man intensive system which through design allows relatively little meaningful pilot participation in decision making. The negative impact of this existing design can be measured in delays, dollars and lives. The FAA's design plans for the future ATC system will result in an even more intensive ground-centralized system with even further reduction of pilot decision making participation. In addition, controllers will also be removed from on-line decision making through anticipated automation of some or all of this critical function. Recent congressional hearings indicate that neither pilots nor controllers are happy or sanguine regarding the FAA's design for the future ATC system.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL BASICS

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-56
Author(s):  
T. S. Sukhova ◽  
O. V. Aleksashina ◽  
O. N. Grinyuk
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Flight Safety ◽  
Traffic Control System ◽  
Control Complex

The concept of flight safety is considered, the features and purpose of the air traffic control system, the air traffic control complex, the capabilities of the system that ensure flight safety are presented.

An Automated Conflict-alert Function for an Air Traffic Control System

1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
P. Bertolazzi ◽  
M. Lucertini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Number Of False Alarms ◽  
Traffic Control System

The major purpose of an air traffic control system is to ensure the separation of two or more aircraft flying in the same airspace, with an efficiency that can be expressed in terms of capacity and cost. As air traffic grows in numbers it becomes necessary to reduce the workload of the controllers by relieving them of many monitoring tasks, and eventually some decision-making tasks, through computerized automation. In this context many developments tend to build up an efficient conflict-alert subsystem.The problem of conflict-alert in the air needs strategic tools, to make collision unlikely or even impossible, and tactical tools to detect impending collisions. The latter detect potentially hazardous aircraft encounters and alert the controller in time to warn the pilots (if necessary) and should obviously provide this capability with a minimal number of false alarms and no increase in workload.

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