CAPACITY AND PRODUCTIVITY IMPLICATIONS OF ENROUTE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUTOMATION

This report documents the work performed by Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to evaluate controller productivity and capacity benefits potentially realizable from postulated evolution of enroute air traffic control (ATC) automation. This work focused on the workload limitations of human controllers and the effects on controllers of various automation applications to National Airspace System (NAS) Stage A3d.2 ATC. Empirical measurements of routine, surveillance, and conflict processing activities were used to develop workload models of control-team operations. These models are extensions of the Relative Capacity Estimating Process (RECEP) previously developed by SRI. They were used to assess the potential benefits of enhancements including an electronic tabular flight data display. The workload models were incorporated into the SRI Air Traffic Flow (ATF) network simulation model to assess the potential benefits of a computerized facility-level traffic flow control method termed planning control. (Author)

• Corporate Authors:

  Stanford Research Institute

  333 Ravenswood Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025

  Federal Aviation Administration

  Systems R&D Service, 800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Couluris, G J
  • Ratner, R S
  • Petracek, S J
  • Wong, P J
  • Ketchel, J M
• Publication Date: 1974-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 149 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic; Air traffic control; Air traffic controllers; Automation; Enroute traffic control; Information display systems; Information processing; Mathematical models; Networks; Physiological fatigue; Planning; Simulation; Speech; Traffic flow; Voice communication; Work measurement; Workload
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Capacity quantity; Enroute traffic control system
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00093338
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FAA-RD-74-196 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FA7oWA-2142
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 16 1976 12:00AM