26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-8.7.2

ASSESSMENT OF FLIGHT CREW ACCEPTANCE OF AUTOMATED RESOLUTION SUGGESTIONS AND MANUAL RESOLUTION TOOLS

V. Battiste, W. J. Johnson*, A. Q. Dao, S. Brandt, N. Johnson, S. Granada
San Jose State Univ., USA; *NASA, USA

Keywords: flight crew acceptance, automated resolution

Research on distributed air/ground traffic management suggests that a move from centralized control to distributed control could reduce controller workload and possibly increase the number of aircraft safely handled. A focused air and ground part-task study is conducted to assess strengths and weaknesses of automated and human generated resolutions.

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