A theory and model of conflict detection in air traffic control: Incorporating environmental constraints.

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shayne Loft ◽  
Scott Bolland ◽  
Michael S. Humphreys ◽  
Andrew Neal
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Conflict Detection ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Environmental Constraints ◽  
Theory And Model

Design of a conflict-detection air traffic control tool for the implementation of continuous climb operations: A case study at Palma TMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 233 (13) ◽  
pp. 4839-4852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier A Pérez-Castán ◽  
Fernando Gómez Comendador ◽  
Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz ◽  
Rocío Barragán ◽  
Rosa M Arnaldo-Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Conflict Detection ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Traffic Flows ◽  
Control Intervention ◽  
Static Approach ◽  
Operational Concept ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Control Tool

Continuous climb operation is an operational concept that allows airlines to perform an optimal departing trajectory avoiding air traffic control segregation requirements. This concept implies the design and integration of air traffic flows for the sake of safety performance. This paper designs a new conflict-detection air traffic control tool based on the blocking-area concept, characterises the conflict probability between air traffic flows and assesses the impact of continuous climb operation integration in a terminal manoeuvring area. In this paper, a conflict is set out by the infringement of vertical and longitudinal separation minima and coincides with the probability of air traffic control tool usage. Moreover, this research discusses two different approaches for the conflict-detection air traffic control tool: a static approach considering nominal continuous climb operations and landing trajectories, and a dynamic approach that assesses 105 continuous climb operations and landing trajectories. Finally, the air traffic control tool is implemented using Palma TMA data and proves that out of 11 intersections (between departing and landing routes), solely 4 generate vertical separation infringements. The conflict probability between continuous climb operations and arrivals is less than 10−5. Except for one intersection, that is roughly 10−2, similar to current air traffic control intervention designed levels. Therefore, results conclude the viability of the conflict-detection air traffic control tool and continuous climb operations integration.

An analysis of relational complexity in an air traffic control conflict detection task

Ergonomics ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (14) ◽  
pp. 1508-1526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Boag ◽  
Andrew Neal ◽  
Shayne Loft ◽  
Graeme S. Halford
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Conflict Detection ◽  
Detection Task ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Relational Complexity

Probabilistic-Geometric Method for a Medium Term Conflict Detection in Air Traffic Control

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
S. N. Losev ◽  
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V. I. Makarenko ◽  
N. N. Podolskaya ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Conflict Detection ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Geometric Method ◽  
Medium Term

Automatic Conflict Detection Logic for Future Air Traffic Control

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Coordinate Transformation ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Radar Data ◽  
Conflict Detection ◽  
Computer Processing ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Flight Plan

Air traffic control (ATC) makes extensive use of computer technology in subordinate roles for processing flight-plan and radar data and for message switching. It is usual to stress that such computers are aids to human controllers who take the decisions. It can, however, be argued that computers are, in fact, already encroaching on the decision-taking processes. The SSR plot extractor, for example, produces a censored summary which amounts to only a few per cent of the torrent of radar data from which it is derived. This summary is then subjected to code conversion and coordinate transformation before it reaches the controllers who cannot refer back to the data sources. Once computer-processing has been introduced, the issue is no longer whether a computer may take some of the decisions involved in ATC, but merely the extent of the authority it can exercise.

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