Air traffic predictability framework – Development, performance evaluation and application

Tobaruela, Gonzalo; Fransen, Peter; Schuster, W.; Ochieng, Washington Yotto; Majumdar, Arnab

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2014.04.001

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“…The design of automation systems in the flight deck can interact with pilots in a way to assist pilots in solving problems in situations ranging well defined scenarios to ill-defined scenarios (Le, Loll, & Pinkwart, 2013). Human-centred design of automated aids have significant effects on human performance and cognitive processes (Tobaruela, Fransen, Schuster, Ochieng, & Majumdar, 2014), with increased capability to manage complex tasks (Wickens & Holland, 2000). The problematic issue with the traditional PFD design is that FMA activated modes are only highlighted for 10 seconds before any distinctive visual cues automatically disappear.…”

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Augmented visualization cues on primary flight display facilitating pilot's monitoring performance

Horn²,

Sun

et al. 2020

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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There have been many aviation accidents and incidents related to mode confusion on the flight deck. The aim of this research is to evaluate human-computer interactions on a newly designed augmented visualization Primary Flight Display (PFD) compared with the traditional design of PFD. Based on statistical analysis of 20 participants interaction with the system, there are significant differences on pilots' pupil dilation, fixation duration, fixation counts and mental demand between the traditional PFD design and augmented PFD. The results demonstrated that augmented visualisation PFD, which uses a green border around the "raw data" of airspeed, altitude or heading indications to highlight activated mode changes, can significantly enhance pilots' situation awareness and decrease perceived workload. Pilots can identify the status of flight modes more easily, rapidly and accurately compared to the traditional PFD, thus shortening the response time on cognitive information processing. This could also be the reason why fixation durations on augmented PFDs were significantly shorter than traditional PFDs. The augmented visualization in the flight deck improves pilots' situation awareness as indicated by increased fixation counts related to attention distribution. Simply highlighting the parameters on the PFD with a green border in association with relevant flight mode changes will greatly reduce pilots' perceived workload and increase situation awareness. Flight deck design must focus on methods to provide pilots with enhanced situation awareness, thus decreasing cognitive processing requirements by providing intuitive understanding in time limited situations.

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Augmented visualization cues on primary flight display facilitating pilot's monitoring performance

Horn²,

Sun

et al. 2020

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…Due to the complexity of managing an airspace resource, the air traffic control facility designates different air traffic service providers that seek to oversee aircraft operations according to a flight's phase. Such designation, although separate in units, is hinged toward the common goal of delivering a safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic between aircraft [35].…”

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An Integer Linear Programming Formulation for Post-Departure Air Traffic Flow Management

Bongo

2021

AEJ

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The air transportation domain faces issues in air traffic congestion which leads to delays affecting a network of flights. As stakeholders strive to address such issue by applying air traffic flow management (ATFM) actions, there exists an apparent divide in the solution objective and perspectives. In the extant literature, solution approaches involving ATFM actions are often framed from the perspective of only one stakeholder to another. Such a scheme does not comprehensively cover the overall goal of the stakeholders, thus, provides inadequate, even conflicting, solutions. Therefore, this paper proposes an integer linear programming model for a rerouting problem that satisfactorily incorporates the individual interests of stakeholders (i.e., airport management, airline sector, air traffic management) in the commercial aviation industry and the common goal of ensuring safety in flight operations. The proposed model is designed to tactically select an alternate route when the primary route is constrained due to uncertainties such as inclement weather in a post-departure scenario. A hypothetical case study involving multiple destinations and alternate routes is carried out to illustrate the validity of the model. A Demo version of Lingo software is used to run the proposed model. Notable computational results show significant differences of selected routes as individual system interests are taken into isolation compared to when the general, collaborative model is implemented. In other words, the proposed model is able to show that preferences in alternate routes do vary with the individual interests of stakeholders, more so with the integration of the collaborative decision among stakeholders. Therefore, this research work provides a groundwork to a more comprehensive take of managing air traffic scenario involving all phases of flights. This is realized by providing a proof that significant shifts of decision solutions occur when the overall goal of stakeholders is considered rather than taking their individual interests into isolation.

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“…Pop-up flights -also referred to as in-horizon departures -pose one of the most significant operational and technical di culties [3]. Studies indicate that inaccuracies related to the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) are substantially larger when the aircraft has not departed yet (which is the case with in-horizon departures); ETAs for airborne flights, even at large distances from the airport, are significantly more accurate when compared to those of pop-up flights [9,10]. When compared to TP errors, the negative impact of pop-up flights on the arrival management process is therefore considered substantially larger.…”

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Effect of Popup Flights on the Extended Arrival Manager

Vanwelsenaere

Ellerbroek

Westerveld³

2018

Journal of Air Transportation

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To assess the e↵ect of flights departing within the horizon of the extended arrival manager (socalled pop-up flights), fast-time simulations were performed using an arrival manager research model. This model is tailored for operations at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and integrated in BlueSky, an open-source air tra c management simulator. Simulation results show a significantly negative impact of pop-up flights on extended arrival management, in terms of flight crew and air tra c control task load, sequence stability and delay (cost). This impact could be mitigated by pre-planning pop-up flights prior to departure, using their take-o↵ time estimates. This will, however, only be beneficial when these estimates are su ciently accurate (better than two minutes). With currently achievable accuracies, it is better to discard these estimates in the context of extended arrival management.

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Air traffic predictability framework – Development, performance evaluation and application

Cited by 14 publications

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Augmented visualization cues on primary flight display facilitating pilot's monitoring performance

Augmented visualization cues on primary flight display facilitating pilot's monitoring performance

An Integer Linear Programming Formulation for Post-Departure Air Traffic Flow Management

Effect of Popup Flights on the Extended Arrival Manager

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