The Center-Tracon Automation System: Simulation and Field Testing

Denery, Dallas G.; Erzberger, Heinz

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-60836-0_6

Cited by 17 publications

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“…According to Erzberger: 'They [the airline companies] came and talked to me and to others here and I demonstrated systems in the laboratory to them and then they put the pressure on the FAA to implement this and eventually the FAA very much embraced the concept'. 11 The airline companies 'were the key advocate at that time; they went to the Congress and asked the FAA to explain why this system should not be deployed. 9 Erzberger 2008 Ferguson interview.…”

Section: Nasa and The Algorithmic Approach To Atcmentioning

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Up in the air: Barriers to greener air traffic control and infrastructure lock-in in a complex socio-technical system

Spinardi

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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a b s t r a c tGreater automation of air traffic control (ATC) could reduce aviation's climate change impacts, but improvements predicted long ago have been slow to happen. This resistance to ATC modernisation is framed as an issue of lock-in, and the detailed case study described here enables an analysis of the factors involved in slowing change. Although the classic lock-in effects of 'increasing returns' and 'network externalities' are important, a major barrier to modernisation is due to the political and organisational challenges of coordinating change across a large, complex socio-technical system. However, lock-in effects are crucial with respect to the perceived increasing returns accrued from experience with manual ATC operations, and the difficulty of quantifying the risks of automation (particularly as regard the use of complex software) is a major barrier to further improvements. Overcoming this obstacle to further automation depends on finding ways to test and operate new ATC software and procedures without compromising safety.

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Section: Nasa and The Algorithmic Approach To Atcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Up in the air: Barriers to greener air traffic control and infrastructure lock-in in a complex socio-technical system

Spinardi

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Other studies using fasttime simulation and Human-In-The-Loop experiments have shown inter-arrival errors around 15-25 seconds. 13,17,18 As advanced air traffic management techniques become prevalent, the inter-arrival spacing error is expected to decrease to less than 7.5 seconds. 14,15,18 Assuming arrival time errors are independent, the corresponding runway arrival time error is computed by the root sum square of two successive arrival time errors equals the inter-arrival spacing time error.…”

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Design Considerations for a New Terminal Area Arrival Scheduler

Thipphavong

Mulfinger

2010

10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference

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Design of a terminal area arrival scheduler depends on the interrelationship between throughput, delay and controller intervention. The main contribution of this paper is an analysis of the above interdependence for several stochastic behaviors of expected system performance distributions in the aircraft's time of arrival at the meter fix and runway. Results of this analysis serve to guide the scheduler design choices for key control variables. Two types of variables are analyzed, separation buffers and terminal delay margins. The choice for these decision variables was tested using sensitivity analysis. Analysis suggests that it is best to set the separation buffer at the meter fix to its minimum and adjust the runway buffer to attain the desired system performance. Delay margin was found to have the least effect. These results help characterize the variables most influential in the scheduling operations of terminal area arrivals.

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“…Many organizations involved in the development of new operational concepts and/or technologies for ATM have found field testing invaluable for their programs. These organizations include NASA and FAA in the development of the Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS), 13 FAA and Cargo Airline Association (CAA) in their support of the Ohio Valley Experiment, 14 and Eurocontrol in the Free-Route Experimental Encounter Resolution (FREER) experiments. 15 As the DAG-TM concept definition and airborne decision-aiding automation mature, sensitivity analysis will be performed on the basic assumptions embedded within the simulations.…”

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Airborne separation assurance and traffic management - Research of concepts and technology

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David

Monica

et al. 1999

Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

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To support the need for increased flexibility and capacity in the future National Airspace System, NASA is pursuing an approach that distributes air traffic separation and management tasks to both airborne and ground-based systems. Details of the distributed operations and the benefits and technical challenges of such a system are discussed. Technology requirements and research issues are outlined, and NASA's approach for establishing concept feasibility, which includes development of the airborne automation necessary to support the concept, is described.

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The Center-Tracon Automation System: Simulation and Field Testing

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Up in the air: Barriers to greener air traffic control and infrastructure lock-in in a complex socio-technical system

Up in the air: Barriers to greener air traffic control and infrastructure lock-in in a complex socio-technical system

Design Considerations for a New Terminal Area Arrival Scheduler

Airborne separation assurance and traffic management - Research of concepts and technology

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