Analysis of the performance characteristics of controllers’ strategies in en route air traffic control tasks

Karikawa, Daisuke; Aoyama, Hisae; Takahashi, Makoto; Furuta, K.; Ishibashi, Akira; Kitamura, M.

doi:10.1007/s10111-013-0268-5

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“…Indeed, in his experiment expert controllers made more conservative conflict judgments than novices. This is also consistent with interviews with controllers which underlined that selecting appropriate control strategies of air traffic, was a key feature of ATCO's skills allowing to handle traffic by reserving their cognitive resources (Karikawa et al, 2014). One can imagine that the tool helped choosing solutions that would require more cognitive resources to monitor the evolving situation in order to ensure safety.…”

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“…Cognitive strategies of ATCOs in real work situations were explored by Karikawa et al (2013) and visualization tools of en-route tasks were developed to analyze the performance of controllers' strategies (Karikawa et al, 2014). More recently, Edwards et al (2017) studied the interaction of situation awareness and workload for different levels of automation in a real environment as well.…”

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Understanding and overcoming horizontal separation complexity in air traffic control: an expert/novice comparison

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Humans still play a key role in air traffic control but their performances limit the capacity of the airspace and are responsible for delays. At the tactical level, even though Air Traffic Controllers (ATCO) are trained for years, their performances are limited. In this article, we first isolated the tactical horizontal deconfliction task and explained its mathematical complexity. We observed through a simple experiment conducted on

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Understanding and overcoming horizontal separation complexity in air traffic control: an expert/novice comparison

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“…Most of the past related studies were conducted overseas such as in China and Japan (Karikawa et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2014). For instance, Zhang et al (2014) explored on the decision-making processes among the trainee controllers in Civil Aviation Flight University of China meanwhile Karikawa et al (2014) analyzed the performance features of ATCOs' strategies in Japan. Another research done in China was done by Wang et al (2021) which was to investigate on the factors of eye movement in decision-making among the ATCOs.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review on Decision-Making Processes among Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) in Managing the Arrival of the Aircrafts during Conflict Resolution

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Meor Osman

2023

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The number of flights has started to increase as economy has started to recover slowly in which it has greatly affected due to the pandemic of COVID-19. To ensure the safety and efficiency in aviation industry, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) hold great responsibilities in ensuring the minimum separation between the aircrafts. Therefore, the researcher conducts a systematic literature review of previous related studies on decision-making among the ATCOs from the year 2000 to 2022. The main aim of this paper is to present the analysis of findings from previous related studies on decision-making among the ATCOs based on the formulated questions. The main findings of the 22 articles which have been reviewed and analyzed have been discussed and were being displayed in tables in the discussion section. Findings of this review indicated that it is crucial for the ATCOs to ensure minimum separation between the aircrafts while making a quick decision and at the same time to make sure the safety aspect in the aviation industry.

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“…Previous research (Karikawa et al, 2013) has illustrated the cognitive strategies of air traffic controllers in real work situations. Karikawa et al (2014) have developed a visualization tool of en-route Air Traffic Control tasks to analyze the performance characteristics of controllers' strategies. More recently Edwards et al (2017) studied the interaction of situation awareness and workload for different levels of automation in a real environment as well.…”

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Visualizing complexities: the human limits of air traffic control

2018

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Air traffic management is organized into filters in order to prevent tactical controllers from dealing with complex conflicting situations. In this article, we describe an experiment showing that a dynamic conflict display could improve human performance on complex conflict situations. Specifically, we designed a display tool that represents the conflicting portions of aircraft trajectories and the evolution of the conflict zone when the user adds a maneuver to an aircraft. The tool allows the user to dynamically check the potential conflicting zones with the computer mouse before making a maneuver decision. We tested its utility on a population of forty students: twenty Air Traffic Controller (ATC) students at the end of their initial training and twenty engineering students with the same background but no ATC training. They had to solve conflicts involving two to five aircraft with a basic display and with the dynamic visualization tool. Results show that in easy situations (2 aircraft), performance is similar with both displays. However, as the complexity of the situations grows (from 3 to 5 aircraft), the dynamic visualization tool enables users to solve the conflicts more efficiently. Using the tool leads to fewer unsolved conflicts and shorter delays. No significant differences are found between the two test groups except for delays: ATC students give maneuvers that generate less delays than engineering students. These results suggest that humans are better able to manage complex situations with the help of our conflict visualization tool.

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Analysis of the performance characteristics of controllers’ strategies in en route air traffic control tasks

Cited by 17 publications

References 11 publications

Understanding and overcoming horizontal separation complexity in air traffic control: an expert/novice comparison

Understanding and overcoming horizontal separation complexity in air traffic control: an expert/novice comparison

A Systematic Literature Review on Decision-Making Processes among Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) in Managing the Arrival of the Aircrafts during Conflict Resolution

Visualizing complexities: the human limits of air traffic control

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