Towards Human-Automation Teamwork in Shared En-Route Air Traffic Control: Task Analysis

In the quest for more efficient air traffic management, a common approach is to allocate an increasing amount of functionality to higher levels of automation, with a supervisory role for humans. This potentially leads to forthcoming issues such as skill degradation and out-of-the-loop phenomenon. If the traffic in an airspace is instead shared...

Flight Allocation in Shared Human-Automation En-Route Air Traffic Control

Allocation is a challenge for higher levels of automation in air traffic control, where flights can be dynamically assigned to either a human or an automated agent. Through an exploratory experiment with six professional air traffic controllers, insight was gained into the possibilities and challenges of human-automation teamwork in an en-route...

Ecological interface design: supporting fault diagnosis of automated advice in a supervisory air traffic control task

Future air traffic control will have to rely on more advanced automation to support human controllers in their job of safely handling increased traffic volumes. A prerequisite for the success of such automation is that the data driving it are reliable. Current technology, however, still warrants human supervision in coping with (data)...

NASA-NLR long-line experiment; a first step to connected Air Traffic Management research facilitiest

A data-communication link via Internet has been established between the Crew-Vehicle Systems Research Facility (CVSRF) at the NASA Ames Research Center and the CTAS/NARSIM Simulation Facility (CNSF) at the NLR. Multiple simulated arrival flights of the Advanced Concepts Flight Simulator (ACFS) for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands...

The layered safety concept, an integrated approach to the design and validation of air traffic management enhancements

The expected growth of air traffic asks for large enhancements in continental Air Traffic Management (ATM) to increase capacity. From a technology point of view a multitude of 'solutions' are available, such as introducing air-ground datalink, providing better support to the ATCo (Air Traffic Controller), introducing 4D air traffic control,...

A stochastic control approach to flight path monitoring

In the Programme for Harmonised Air Traffic management Research in Eurocontrol (PHARE) Medium Term Scenario, a number of Advanced Tools are described which must be developed in order to increase Air Traffic Control capacity and the flight efficiency of aircraft while keeping at least the same level of safety. One of these Tools is the Flight...

A method and measures to evaluate trackers for air traffic control

The general setup of the evaluation of a radar tracking algorithm in a civil ATC-system has been considered from an operational point of view. Both the present and the potential future use of trackdate has been taken in account. The result is a method to evaluate trackers for ATC on the basis of live-traffic data, under the assumption that a...