Print Email Facebook Twitter Analysis of Air Traffic Controller Workload Reduction Based on the Solution Space for the Merging Task Title Analysis of Air Traffic Controller Workload Reduction Based on the Solution Space for the Merging Task Author Mercado Velasco, G.A. Mulder, M. Van Paassen, M.M. Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Control & Operations Date 2010-08-02 Abstract Air traffic controller workload is considered to be an important limiting factor to the growth of air traffic. The difficulty of an air traffic control task can be analyzed through examining the problem’s solution space, that is, all possible vector commands that satisfy the constraints of safety, productivity and efficiency. But apart from deriving metrics for workload, a visualization based on the solution space, resulting in the Solution Space Diagram, could help the controller inmanaging the air traffic. An experiment was conducted in which two different levels of traffic density were tested in order to evaluate the effects of presenting the Solution Space Diagram on controller workload. The experiment entailed the task of merging aircraft into a single route and subjects provided subjective ratings of workload at fixed intervals of time. Depending on traffic level and subject experience, significant effects of the Solution Space Diagram were found on the reduction of controller workload. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0cb1a6a5-3add-40b8-8ae5-9e6ba95f649c DOI https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2010-7541 Publisher American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) ISBN 978-1-60086-962-4 Source AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2-5 August 2010; AIAA 2010-7541 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2010 Delft University of Technology Files PDF Mercado_Velasco.pdf 336.27 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0cb1a6a5-3add-40b8-8ae5-9e6ba95f649c/datastream/OBJ/view