Human-centred design for next generation of air traffic management systems.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Li, Wen-Chin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kearney, Peter | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-01T12:39:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-01T12:39:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Designing and deploying air traffic management systems requires an understanding of cognitive ergonomics, system integration, and human-computer interactions. The aim of this research is to develop an effective Human-centred design for Air Navigation Services Providers to permit more effective air traffic controller training and regulations. Therefore, this research consists of both evaluating human-computer interactions on COOPANS Air Traffic Management system and multiple remote tower operations. The COOPANS Alliance is an international cooperation among the air navigation service providers of Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal and Sweden with Thales as the industry supplier. The findings of this project indicate that the context-specified design of semantic alerts could improve ATCO’s situational awareness and significantly reduce response time when responding to aircraft conflict resolution alerts. Civil Aviation Authorities, Air Navigation Service Providers and Air Traffic Management System Providers could all benefit from the findings of this research with a view to ensuring that Air Traffic Controllers are provided with the optimal context-specified alerting schemes to increase their situational awareness during both training and operations. The EU Single European Sky initiative was introduced to restructure European airspace and propose innovative measures for air traffic management to achieve the objectives of enhanced cost-efficiency and improved airspace design and airport capacity whilst simultaneously improving safety performance. There is potential to save approximately €2.21 million Euro per annum per installation of remote tower versus traditional control towers. However, ATCO’s visual attention and monitoring performance can be affected by how information is presented, the complexity of the information presented, and the operating environment in the remote tower centre. To achieve resource-efficient and sustainable air navigation services, there is a need to improve the design of human-computer interactions in multiple remote tower technology deployment. These must align with high technology-readiness levels, operators’ practices, industrial developments, and the certification processes of regulators. From a regulatory perspective the results of this project may contribute to European Aviation Safety Agency rulemaking activity for future Air Traffic Management Systems. Overall, the results of this research are in line with the requirements of Single European Sky and facilitate the harmonisation of European ATM systems. | en_UK |
| dc.description.coursename | PhD in Transport Systems | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/20487 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_UK |
| dc.publisher | Cranfield University | en_UK |
| dc.publisher.department | SATM | en_UK |
| dc.rights | © Cranfield University, 2019. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder. | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Cognitive ergonomics | en_UK |
| dc.subject | system integration | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Coopans Air Traffic Management system | en_UK |
| dc.subject | situational awareness | en_UK |
| dc.subject | response time reduction | en_UK |
| dc.subject | enhanced cost-efficiency | en_UK |
| dc.subject | airspace design | en_UK |
| dc.subject | airport capacity | en_UK |
| dc.title | Human-centred design for next generation of air traffic management systems. | en_UK |
| dc.type | Thesis or dissertation | en_UK |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_UK |
| dc.type.qualificationname | PhD | en_UK |