Identifying Interesting Moments in Controllers Work Video via Dimensionality Reduction

Krus, Kristofer; Polishchuk, Tatiana; Polishchuk, Valentin

doi:10.1109/aida-at48540.2020.9049170

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“…CAPAN uses an airspace model in which workload is generated for the simulated working position with given air traffic; it deals with workload of sector air traffic controllers in ACC (Area Control Centre) [ 22 ] and not with tower air traffic controllers. In recent years, many studies have investigated the ACC workload [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ], but understanding of the TATC has not yet deepened.…”

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How the Tower Air Traffic Controller Workload Influences the Capacity in a Complex Three-Runway Airport

Mascio

Carrara

Frasacco

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Air traffic controllers aim to optimize airport capacity, that is to increase the number of aircraft movements per hour maintaining a limited delay. There are several definitions of capacity, which depend on the considered airport element. This study focused on the development of a method that allows evaluating the impact of tower air traffic controllers’ workload on airport capacity. It adapts a model for the workload of sector controllers designed by Eurocontrol to tower controllers and tests it on a heavily busy international airport. In order to collect controllers’ working times, a campaign of data collection has been carried out from the radio frequency occupation. The results allowed us to extrapolate the hourly percentage of work of the various tower controllers using a fast-time simulation software. By imposing an hourly working threshold on tower air traffic controllers, it was possible to obtain a maximum number of manageable aircraft, which was compared with the airside capacity of the airport. The results show that the maximum traffic manageable from the airside would produce unacceptable workload for tower controllers, highlighting the link between airport capacity and the human component.

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