{"title":"Advanced Noise Abatement Approach Activities at a Regional UK Airport","authors":"T. Reynolds, L. Ren, J. Clarke","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.4.275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.4.275","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced noise abatement procedures incorporating Continuous Descent Approach, Precision Area Navigation and Low Power/Low Drag elements have been developed for a regional UK airport in partnership between academia and key stakeholders. The procedures were designed for a wide variety of aircraft types and equipages using a combination of advanced academic research tools, industry simulators and stakeholder input. Interactions between airspace constraints and procedure design were found to be critical. Flight trials of the procedures have demonstrated significant environmental benefits compared with non-trial flights: 3-6 dBA peak noise reductions and 10-20% fuel burn/carbon dioxide emissions reductions have been observed. However, the importance of aircraft automation level, air traffic control coordination and the need for effective environmental performance metrics have been highlighted.","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116279042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incremental, Probabilistic Decision Making for En Route Traffic Management","authors":"C. Wanke, D. Greenbaum","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.4.299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.4.299","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a method of incremental decision making using prediction uncertainty as a more efficient and effective means of aircraft congestion resolution. Standard manual en route airspace congestion planning often suffers from unplanned variables such as convective weather and thus systemic delays result. The proposed scheme uses a Monte Carlo decision method simulation technique to provide support for incremental probabilistic decision making. Researchers aim to have this simulation assist air traffic control (ATC) in solving various air traffic congestion contingencies by showing cost-benefit analyses of various decisions involved. All decisions made by the simulation method take into account quantitative evaluations that are based upon expected delay cost distributions for certain actions based on individual flight paths as opposed to the more standard approach based upon flows. It is noted that the best approach solves problems at increments of 90 minutes and 30 minutes prior to a congestion problem.","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122266549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Air Traffic Management Concepts Analysis Methodology: Application to a Multi-Sector Planner in US Airspace","authors":"K. Corker, Paul Lee, T. Prevot, D. Liang","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.4.347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.4.347","url":null,"abstract":"Several developments in the technologies supporting air traffic management (ATM) such as digital communication and improved positioning accuracy for aircraft, have enabled consideration of new organizational and functional operations. In order that these new organizational and functional operations be properly evaluated, efficient and effective methods need to be developed in support of systematic analysis of the new ways of managing air traffic. This paper provides such an evaluation method using Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) and discusses its application to new controller-team processes. One such consideration of a new controller-team process is a modification of the standard air traffic control team to include a multi-sector planner (MSP) position. This MSP is being investigated in several research and field studies both in Europe and in the US The feasibility and effectiveness of two of these concept variations were investigated in the current study. The experiment consisted of a pair of one-wee...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"36 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132353793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Krozel, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, V. Polishchuk, J. Prete
{"title":"Maximum Flow Rates for Capacity Estimation in Level Flight with Convective Weather Constraints","authors":"J. Krozel, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, V. Polishchuk, J. Prete","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.3.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.3.209","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses problems arising from maximum flow rates in airspace capacity estimation given the condition of convective weather constraint. This problem is a projection for future air traffic control (ATC) and air traffic management where routing logistics are removed and given over strictly to geometrical limitations of prevailing weather conditions. Four varying flows, with descriptors referencing the quantified aircraft flows, are discussed in the article: unidirectional routes, all altitudes, monotonic rule, and alternating altitude rule. Simulation tests, based on both real and synthesized data, were conducted for these flows with maximum flow rates being determined. This throughput rate was then compared to the theoretical upper bound that is typically used in network flow theory. A complexity metric for the given situations is also presented herein.","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115492522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monotony in Air Traffic Control","authors":"S. Straussberger, D. Schaefer","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.3.183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.3.183","url":null,"abstract":"Monotony has been studied in areas such as assembly lines, power plant control rooms and driving vehicles yet these findings are not easily transferable to air traffic control. A simulator experime...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131203577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Incident Stress Management in Air Traffic Control and Its Benefits","authors":"J. Vogt, J. Leonhardt, S. Pennig","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.127","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the authors discuss research into the application of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) to the German Air Traffic Control Services (DFS) in terms of its applicability and relationship to cost-benefit analyses. Evaluation of CISM as implemented at DFS was conducted using a survey method which solicited the opinions of 309 air traffic control (ATC) operators. Evaluations were also collected by peer programs akin to CISM, ATC operator supervisors, and ATC upper management. One item of information collected in these evaluations concerned financial information regarding the effectiveness of CISM at fiscal cost reduction. Most notable was the information regarding the causal chains leading to tangles in the form of critical incidents (CI) that impair ATC activities. Conclusions given include recommendations based on the evaluations collected.","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121797838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recovery from Equipment Failures in Air Traffic Control (ATC): The Findings from an International Survey of Controllers","authors":"B. Subotic, A. Majumdar, W. Ochieng","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.157","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the findings from an international survey conducted to overcome the absence of knowledge related to equipment failures in Air Traffic Control (ATC) and subsequent controller rec...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130821658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Summary of the Results of the Mediterranean Free Flight (MFF) Programme","authors":"Andy Barff","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.119","url":null,"abstract":"The following has been extracted from MFF “Newsletters,” which are available, along with all reports of the MFF international multi-disciplinary teams, at http://www.medff.it","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128499172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Pasquini, Marinella Leone, K. Vickery, H. Wagemans
{"title":"Validation Management in an ATM Research Project","authors":"A. Pasquini, Marinella Leone, K. Vickery, H. Wagemans","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.15.2.89","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the validation process used in the Mediterranean Free Flight (MFF) project. MFF was a large, six-year ATM research project, sponsored by the European Commission, that studied Operational Concepts and procedures for more efficient use of airspace through the delegation of tasks related to separation assurance. The validation approaches proposed in recent validation research initiatives, and in particular in the project Master ATM European Validation Plan (MAEVA), have been modified, integrated and applied in MFF. The paper illustrates how the project adopted these approaches in a practical project environment, in particular how Validation Objectives to assess the suitability, effectiveness and feasibility of the MFF Operational Concepts were identified and investigated, and their relation to overall ATM objectives. Then, it describes in detail the Validation Process as applied, giving examples of the practical methods used in the different phases, and describing the use of the Validati...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123320898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}