pyModeS: Decoding Mode-S Surveillance Data for Open Air Transportation Research

The availability of low-cost automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) receivers has given researchers the ability to make use of large amounts of aircraft state data. This data is being used to support air transportation research in performance study, trajectory prediction, procedure analysis, and airspace design. However, aircraft...

Effect of Automation Transparency on Acceptance of Resolution Advisories in Air Traffic Control

As air traffic controller workload is a bottleneck on air traffic growth, automation solutions have been proposed. This study investigates the effect of transparency on the acceptance of resolution advisories generated by an adaptive automation tool and the frustration experienced by controllers when using this tool. Two different kinds of...

Strategic Conformal Automation for Air Traffic Control: A Machine Learning Approach

Acceptance of automation has been a bottleneck for successful introduction of automation in Air Traffic Control. Strategic conformal automation has been proven to increase automation acceptance, by creating a better match between automation and operator decision-making. In this paper strategic conformal automation for Air Traffic Control is...

Adaptive Automation Based on Air Traffic Controller’s Decision-Making

Air traffic controller workload is one of the main bottlenecks in increasing the airspace capacity to handle the predicted growth in air traffic. Through smart scheduling and triggering of the automation support, adaptive automation has the potential to balance controller workload. The challenges in the design of adaptive automation systems are...

A quantitative comparison study of a contextual and cognitive model of Air Traffic Controller workload

Up to this point, research into Air Traffic Controller workload has primarily focused on a number of discrete areas. However, it is widely recognized that different components from these respective fields all contribute to the workload an Air Traffic Controller experiences. Hence, this study has tried to bridge this gap by quantitatively...