The Future of Air Traffic Control: Human Operators and Automation Edited by Christopher D. Wickens, Anne S. Mavor, Raja Parasuraman, & James P. McGee. 1998, 319 pages, $44.95 Washington, DC: National Academy Press ISBN 0-309-06412-0

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-31
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Operators

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.

The Future of Air Traffic Control

1961 ◽  
Vol 65 (606) ◽  
pp. 412-416
Author(s):  
V. A. M. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Air Space ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Aircraft ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sides

The purpose of this contribution is to draw attention to some of the major areas in A.T.C. where there are difficulties and to outline the steps that are being taken to surmount them.Before looking quickly at some of the technical problems I think it might be worth taking a brief look at two important aspects which surmount the whole scene: namely the Civil/Military situation and the birth of Eurocontrol.The relationship between service and civil authorities on A.T.C. matters springs directly from the differing requirements of the two sides for air space. The increasing use of jets by civil operators has made this problem more acute because now the Service aircraft not only have to be shepherded up through the commercial traffic, but also protected from them in the upper levels. The requirements of research aircraft are also stringent and yet again, different.

Why Air Traffic Control?

1961 ◽  
Vol 65 (606) ◽  
pp. 416-418
Author(s):  
R. F. Hansford
Keyword(s):  
Collision Avoidance ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Collision Avoidance System

To avoid any misunderstandings, it should be made clear that in the author's opinion the techniques of Air Traffic Control are not likely to be significantly affected by the future advent of an air-to-air collision avoidance system. This is admittedly a contentious view and this paper is a brief survey of some of the factors which lead the author to hold this opinion. After clarifying what is meant by an air-to-air collision avoidance system, the paper deals first with some of the operational problems, then with some of the technical problems and concludes with general comments.

V.T.O.L. and S.T.O.L. Aircraft and Helicopters and the System of Air Traffic Control They Will Require

1961 ◽  
Vol 65 (606) ◽  
pp. 423-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. B. Illingworth
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
The Future

The title of this paper is “V.T.OX. and S.T.O.L. Aircraft and Helicopters and the System of Air Traffic Control they will require,” but it does not set out to give an audience of Air Traffic Control experts a lecture on how they will have to run their business in the future. What it does do is to make a few remarks on how the operators will wish to run these types of aircraft, when they have them, and to draw some inferences about the new problems in Air Traffic Control which will have to be solved as a result.

A Predictor-Compensator Design to Assist Human Decision-Making Process in an Air-Traffic-Control Simulator

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keivan Sadeghzadeh ◽  
Rifat Sipahi
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
Compensator Design ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Machine Interface ◽  
Smart Machines ◽  
Human Operators

Air traffic control is a demanding task for human operators, as this task requires tracking multiple events, managing the events, and taking actions in the presence of multiple and possibly competing objectives. In such critical tasks, human intelligence is extremely crucial however human decisions also become more prone to errors, which could cause tragic events. One idea to prevent such errors is to design smart machines that can assist human subjects in making decisions whenever human errors become more likely. In this article, we present a simulation model that captures the essence of how a human subject model would interact with a simplified version of an air traffic control simulator, and show how we design a predictor-compensator in order to regulate and possibly improve this interaction, such that overall human-machine interface can be optimized, and human workload is reduced on average.

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