CHALLENGES OF FIELD TESTING THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ADVISOR (TMA) IN AN OPERATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FACILITY
The Traffic Management Advisor (TMA), the sequence and schedule tool of the Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS), was evaluated at the Fort Worth Center in the summer of 1996. This paper describes the challenges encountered during the various phases of the TMA field evaluation, which included system installation, personnel training, and data collection. Operational procedures were developed and applied to the evaluation process that would ensure air safety. The five weeks of field evaluation imposed minimal impact on the hosting facility and provided valuable engineering and human factors data. The collection of data was very much an opportunistic affair, due to dynamic traffic conditions. One measure of the success of the TMA evaluation is that, rather than remove TMA after the evaluation until it could be fully implemented, the prototype TMA is in continual use at ZFW as fully operational version is readied for implementation.
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Corporate Authors:
Ames Research Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Authors:
- Hoang, T
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0000-0002-0814-9665
- Swenson, H N
- Publication Date: 1997-8
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 16 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air traffic control facilities; Field tests; Highway traffic control; Human factors engineering; Installation; Scheduling
- Old TRIS Terms: Air traffic control terminal; Scheduling management
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00744690
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: NAS 1.15:112211, A-977300, , NASA-TM-112211
- Files: NTL, TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 27 1998 12:00AM