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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"air traffic controllers"”.
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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Strike: A Retrospective Analysis
… opinions, beliefs, and perspectives of former air traffic controllers who were terminated from employment with the Federal Aviation Administration for participating in the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike of 1981. The study examines the perceptions of the former …
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The use of VR during testing of fatigue in air traffic controllers
Air traffic control (ATC) aims to transport aeroplanes safely and efficiently through the airspace. This job requires the workers to stay alert and be constantly monitoring the traffic to avoid catastrophic incidents. It is therefore very important to track and manage fatigue among air traffic …
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Air Traffic Controllers’ Occupational Stress and Performance in the Future Air Traffic Management
… it is vital to understand its effects on air traffic controllers and the safety of the national airspace system. This study’s primary purpose is to determine how UAVs that operate in controlled airspace would influence air traffic controllers’ occupational stress and performance. In a …
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Evaluation of blunder detection by air traffic controllers using two different display types
One of the major problems plaguing the airline industry in recent years has been the steady increase in the number and duration of flight delays. Airports have not been able to keep pace with the increase in air traffic. Consequently, Congress has directed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) …
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An Analysis of Intention Formation as a Function of Prospective Memory in Air Traffic Controllers
… is an important part of everyone's daily life. Air traffic controllers whose jobs are based in an environment that taxes their memory resources for extended periods of time rely on this type of memory. Controllers objectives often change based on incoming information and the amount of traffic …
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The impact of air traffic management automation on the human performance of air traffic controllers in aviation law
… in communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) systems directly impact air traffic controllers (ATCs), who must interact with these technologies within a regulated framework. The hypothesis is that aligning these advancements with their governing international, …
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Air Traffic Controllers: Flying in the Face of Danger? A Look Into the Effects of the Time of Day
… country has continued to grow and its commercial air travel along with it. As the number of passengers and planes increase, so must the skill and etermination of the air traffic controllers. They must be at their peak performance levels to ensure the flying public is handled safely and …
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Observation and analysis of departure operations at Boston Logan International Airport
… analysis conducted at Boston Logan International Airport. It was observed that the departure process forms a complex interactive queuing system and is highly controlled by the air traffic controllers. Therefore, Flow constraints were identified with airport resources (runways, taxiways, ramp and …
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Design framework for the graphical user interface of a terminal area air traffic advisory system
… of a graphical user interface to be used by air traffic controllers. The interface is intended to be only a part of a complete Advisory System designed to supplement the tasks of terminal area air traffic controllers. This research addresses many of the human factors issues associated with …
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Aircraft position prediction using neural networks
… runway collisions. One system in place is the Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS), developed under contract with the FAA. AMASS uses a linear prediction system to predict the position of an aircraft 5 to 30 seconds in the future. The system sounds an alarm to warn air traffic …
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Simulation-Based Study to Quantify Data-Communication Benefits in Congested Airport Terminal Area
… of this study was to evaluate the impact of the air traffic controller-to-pilot communication standard known as CPDLC or Data-Communication on the future air traffic operations. The impact was evaluated from the double viewpoint of airport delays and air traffic controllers' workload. RAMS …
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Self-Reported Emotional States and Air Traffic Controller Operational Error Rates in Advanced Air Traffic Control Students
… to promote and mitigate aviation incidents. Air traffic controllers work in high stress environments, requiring them to make hundreds or even thousands of individual decisions in regard to aircraft positioning on a daily basis. All it takes is for one small operational error in order for an …
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Queuing dynamics and control of departure operations at Boston Logan Airport
… of departure operations at major congested airports. In order to support the development of DP tools and other improved methods for departure operations, this thesis is an effort to gain a deep understanding of the underlying dynamics of the departure process based on field observations and …
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Delays in Hiring Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI) Graduates and the Impact on Their Training Success Rate
… utilizes when filling the employee ranks of Air Traffic Controllers (ATC). After a nationwide strike, President Reagan fired the entire ATC workforce in 1981 (Pavel, 2012). Since then the FAA has worked very diligently in filling the vacant positions. Now three decades later the impending …
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Understanding the impact of potential best-equipped, best-served policies on the en-route air traffic controller performance and workload
New capabilities of Air Traffic Control (ATC) under development in Next Generation Air Transportation system (NextGen) will increase the system capacity to accommodate the expected growth in the air traffic. One of the key enablers of the NextGen capabilities is advanced onboard equipage of the …
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Real-time trajectory optimization and air traffic control simulation for noise abatement approach procedures
Aircraft noise is a major obstacle to the growth of aviation. This thesis presents an adaptive onboard real-time optimization algorithm and an Air Traffic Control simulation model that can minimize the aircraft approach noise and meet air traffic control targets and restrictions. The adaptive …
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Modeling next generation air traffic control system with petri net
… Administration (FAA) is one of the largest Air Navigation Service Providers, managing air traffic for more than 15% of the world's airspace. Today's Air Traffic Control (ATC) system cannot meet the growth of the air traffic activities, which brings with more unprecedented delays. At the same …
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An experimental study of the effect of shared information on pilot/controller re-route negotiation
Air-ground data link systems are being developed to enable pilots and air traffic controllers to share information more fully. The sharing of information is generally expected to enhance their shared situation awareness and foster more collaborative decision making. An exploratory, part-task …
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Assessing the Degree to Which Domain Specific Experience Can Offset Age -Related Decline on Basic Cognitive Abilities and Complex Task Performance
Past research has found impaired performance on a range of cognitive abilities as a function of increasing age. However, it has been suggested and demonstrated in limited instances that domain-specific experience can help mitigate decline of specific abilities that underlie complex task …
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