During the FDPs, pilots maintained alertness and vigilance levels that may be considered safe in terms of alertness-related flight safety. This favorable outcome may be attributed to reasonable length of FDPs, favorable circadian start and end times of duties, sufficient opportunities for restorative pre-duty sleep, and relatively good weather conditions. Appropriate FDP scheduling is an important measure to optimize alertness of helicopter pilots who have to cope with adverse environmental conditions and limited landing and air traffic control facilities.
This paper is one of a series of 6 papers about the CityMobil project. These 6 papers are assigned to committee AP020.Toffetti et al.
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ABSTRACTWhen introducing dual-mode vehicles, highly automated vehicles and cybercars, in the near future, human factors issues need to be taken into account. In case of highly autonomous or semi-autonomous driving, there are several human factors concerns such as; transition of control, loss of skill and dealing with automated system errors. The results of one out of four CityMobil experiments studying the eLane concept for dual-mode cars are described. The eLane concept brings together the road infrastructure and the technical development in vehicle automation to allow automated driving in the near future. In the experiment the reactions of the driver are observed in case of system errors or unexpected events, focusing on the transition of control and interface design. Concluding from the results of the experiment and based on current state of the art literature, suggestions are given for future research regarding automation in urban transport. Toffetti et al. 3
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