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.

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.

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.

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.

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