Dealing with the challenges of distributed planning in a stochastic environment: coordinated contingency planning

Smith, Philip J.; Beatty, Roger; Spencer, Amy; Billings, Charles E.

doi:10.1109/dasc.2003.1245864

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“…Such algorithms currently used in air traffic management rely on human traffic managers to set and update capacity parameters (Smith, et al, 2012). Human traffic managers have strategies for managing dynamic constraints such as distributed cooperative contingency planning (Smith, Beatty, Spencer, & Billings, 2003). The heuristics and procedures they use to implement these plans involve strategies such as constraint propagation and least commitment planning, allowing them to wait to make certain decisions until some uncertainty in available information has been resolved (Smith, Spencer, & Billings, 2007).…”

Section: Departure Meteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In distributed planning for supervisory control, practitioners must anticipate trajectories of system parameters (Klein, 1997;Sheridan, 2002;Smith, et al, 2003). To allocate departure capacity to aircraft, the DRC must anticipate capacity given departure conditions and set the departure metering procedure parameters accordingly.…”

Section: Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dynamic constraints require traffic management plans to be continuously adapted (Smith, et al, 2003). Necessary adaptations depend on uncertainty, the available planning horizon, variability that can be tolerated and still maintain acceptable system performance, and lag between applying a change and seeing its effect in the system.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Identifying Support Requirements for Airport Departure Management

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Weaver³

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Airport departure demand that exceeds capacity can lead to longer departure queues than necessary. Departure metering is one approach to managing the flow of aircraft to the departure queue so as to build an appropriate inventory of departures on the surface. The Departure Reservoir Coordinator (DRC) is an envisioned role that will be responsible for managing a departure metering procedure. This paper describes a functional analysis of the DRC role and requirements for supporting a person or team in that role that were derived from the functional analysis. Results of the functional analysis were used to develop display concepts that were evaluated by air traffic controllers.

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Identifying Support Requirements for Airport Departure Management

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Smith²,

Weaver³

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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“…The dynamic nature of airport departure conditions requires continuous adaptation of traffic management plans to maintain safe and efficient traffic flows (Smith, Beatty, Spencer, & Billings, 2003). The nature of the necessary adaptations depends on several factors, such as the:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Degree of uncertainty in conditions, such as in how a weather system will develop (Smith, et al, 2003). Variation in uncertainty over time.…”

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Collaborative Airport Traffic System (CATS) to Evaluate Design Requirements for an Airport Surface Departure Management System

Fernandes

Smith

Johnson³

2011

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Airport surface delays can impact operational costs, environmental emissions, and passenger satisfaction. Departure metering is one alternative approach to airport surface departure management intended to better manage such delays and associated costs. We introduce a simulation environment that can be used to explore human factors issues in the design of such procedures. This includes support for a novel role, the Departure Reservoir Coordinator, responsible for managing the metering procedure, a distributed adaptive planning task. Support for such a novel role can be explored in the Collaborative Airport Traffic System (CATS) simulation environment using prototype information displays, user interaction designs, and a capability for study participants to monitor the impacts of their actions on airport performance in real time. We intend to demonstrate the CATS simulation test bed that facilitates such studies in an effort to better understand human factors requirements for the design of collaborative airport surface departure procedures.

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Cognitive Engineering and Emergency Management

Coelho

2013

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. Understanding Human Cognition

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Dealing with the challenges of distributed planning in a stochastic environment: coordinated contingency planning

Cited by 10 publications

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Identifying Support Requirements for Airport Departure Management

Identifying Support Requirements for Airport Departure Management

Collaborative Airport Traffic System (CATS) to Evaluate Design Requirements for an Airport Surface Departure Management System

Cognitive Engineering and Emergency Management

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