NextSim

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Francis T. Durso ◽  
Eric J. Stearman ◽  
Scott Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Way

The Federal Aviation Administration expects a large increase in air traffic over the next 15 to 20 years. In response, the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) has been proposed, which will use newer technologies and automation to shift the way air traffic is managed. Many of the proposed changes need to be tested before implantation begins, but it is difficult to conduct human factors tests on an environment that does not yet exist. We describe an air traffic control (ATC) simulator developed for this purpose. NextSim is an ATC research simulator that collects performance, workload, and situation awareness data to address human factors/ergonomics issues that might arise in NextGen.

Analysis of Operational Errors and Workload in Air Traffic Control

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (17) ◽  
pp. 1321-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Redding
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Task Analysis ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Performance Tasks ◽  
Operational Errors

The Federal Aviation Administration has embarked on a major curriculum redesign effort to improve the training of en route air traffic controllers. Included in this effort was a cognitive task analysis. One component of the task analysis was an analysis of operational errors, to obtain insights into cognitive-perceptual factors contributing to controller decisionmaking error. The data suggest that a failure to maintain situation awareness is the primary cause of controller error. These results highlight the importance of the controller task “maintain situation awareness”, and are consistent with the findings of the other analyses. An approach for training situation awareness skills is presented in relation to models of expertise developed from other analyses: an expert mental model of air traffic control, and a task decomposition listing thirteen primary controller tasks. The findings and training paridigm have implications for training other complex high-performance tasks performed in a real-time, multi-tasking environment.

Attention Distribution and Situation Awareness in Air Traffic Control

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mica R. Endsley ◽  
Mark D. Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Interesting Pattern ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Operational Errors ◽  
The Way

A study was conducted to investigate the way in which controllers deploy their attention in processing information in en route air traffic control scenarios. Actual air traffic control scenarios in which operational errors occurred were re-created using SATORI and displayed to twenty active air traffic control specialists. SAGAT was used to measure the subjects' ongoing understanding of the scenarios along pertinent situation awareness requirements. The data revealed an interesting pattern of attention distribution in processing the displays that can be linked to prior findings regarding operational errors in air traffic control.

Air Traffic Control

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis T. Durso ◽  
Carol A. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Individual Cognition ◽  
Navigation Service ◽  
Error Risk

Determining how the controller (or air navigation service provider) of the future will function in tomorrow's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) will require an understanding of the existing literature. In this chapter, after an analysis of the controller's job, we focus on technology, which is an important factor in air traffic control (ATC) today and will become increasingly so in NextGen. We then turn to workload and the extent to which it can be predicted. From human-technology interaction and workload, we move to the multiple facets of cognition thought to underlie these and other aspects of the controller's job. Beyond individual cognition, we review collaboration among controllers and discuss both synchronous cooperation and the cooperative shift change. As we move up the system, we look at error, risk, and safety. Finally, we consider the work on controller selection, covering both “select-in” (KSAOs) and “select-out” (e.g., medical and suitability) factors. For NextGen to be successful, human factors researchers must determine from today's research how the human operator can best function to provide ATC services in the future.

scholarly journals Tracking of Aircrafts Using Software Defined Radio (SDR) With An Antenna

2021 ◽  
pp. 660-665
Author(s):  
H. Venkatesh Kumar ◽  
Surabhi. G ◽  
Neha V ◽  
Sandesh. Y. M ◽  
Sagar Kumar. H. S
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Software Defined Radio ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
System Implementation ◽  
Traffic Surveillance ◽  
Radar Systems

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is one in all the favoured technologies employed in air traffic surveillance. The ADS- B uses a band of 1090 MHz. ADS-B is attended with the prevailing radar-based technologies to locate aircraft. The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) conflicts can be detected and resolved by the coexistence of radar systems and ADS-B. Here we tend to track the aircraft using Software Defined Radio, hence the complexness and the value of ADS-B system implementation is drastically reduced. SDR can receive multiple numbers of aircraft information like altitude, latitude, longitude, speed, and direction in real-time and displayed by using an appropriate antenna. The usage of SDR maximizes the coverage of data with accuracy and may accomplish timely.

Human Factors Applications in Airport Air Traffic Control

1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 400-402
Author(s):  
R.B. Stammers
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Computer Assistance

Task demands in airport air traffic control are briefly examined in the context of new systems design. As well traditional human factors approaches, the optimal use of computer assistance is considered. Emphasis is placed on the role of the computer in providing both feedback and feedforward information for controllers.

scholarly journals Human Factors and Neurophysiological Metrics in Air Traffic Control: A Critical Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 250-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Arico ◽  
Gianluca Borghini ◽  
Gianluca Di Flumeri ◽  
Stefano Bonelli ◽  
Alessia Golfetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic
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