A significant fraction of communications between air traffic controllers and pilots is through speech, via radio channels. Automatic transcription control (ATC) has the potential to improve system safety, operational performance, conformance monitoring, enhance controller training. We present an automatic speech recognition model tailored ATC domain that can transcribe voice text. The transcrib...

Future air traffic systems aim at increasing both the capacity and safety of the system, necessitating the development of new metrics and advisory tools for controllers’ workload in real-time. Psychophysiological data such as Electroencephalography (EEG) are used to contrast and validate subjective assessments and workload indices. EEG used within augmented cognition systems form situation awar...

Fatigue is known to be a major risk for safety in aviation. Even if an accurate quantification of the contribution of fatigue in accidents is currently impossible because fatigue is not systematically investigated by a standardised procedure, it is classified as one of the “most wanted” factors by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB): “The Safety Board has long been concerned about t...

Air Traffic Control Planning is a complex area of research in which there is a great need for new and efficient coordination techniques. The tight connection between several parties with different interests makes it a typical and challenging area for the application of multiagent techniques. We study the relation between two important underlying principles in airport traffic planning, namely ut...

Genetic search techniques constitute an optimization methodology effective for solving discontinuous, non-convex, nonlinear, or non-analytic problems. This paper explores the application of such techniques to a non-analytic event-related air traffic control problem, that of runway assignment, sequencing, and scheduling of arrival flights at an airport with multiple runways. Several genetic sear...