The Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) concept proposes a suite of decision support tools for use in the air traffic control tower to support safe and efficient operations.
Human-in-the-Loop Simulations of Surface Trajectory-Based Operations
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The Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) concept proposes a suite of decision support tools for use in the air traffic control tower to support safe and efficient operations. This paper describes the proposed set of automation capabilities to support ground and local controller activities in the NextGen mid-term (2018), including automated decision support tools to generate taxi routes and monitor pilot conformance to the assigned taxi route. To evaluate these capabilities, The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) conducted two human-in-the-loop experiments to evaluate ground controller performance with these decision support tools, focusing on automation to support taxi route generation and conformance monitoring. These simulations specifically examined capabilities provided in surface automation designed by Mosaic ATM. This paper describes the results of those two experiments and discusses necessary future research to refine and validate the NextGen surface decision support tool concepts.