Limitation in airport runway throughput naturally constrains traffic capacity. For this reason, the increasing demand on capacity ultimately will require airport expansion to increase the number of runways and associated taxiways. Often the airport expansion plans necessitate an increase in the complexity of surface traffic, leading to a decrease in surface traffic efficiency, which is reflecte...

Since more than fifteen years an increasing interest is observed worldwide in remote control of low traffic airports by means some kind virtual tower. As outlined the Foreword Steve Ellis and Preface to 1st ed. this book, “Virtual Tower” depicts idea replacing out-of-the-window (OTW) view from a conventional tower on Remote Tower Control Center (RTC) relying advanced video, image processing, re...

Model based Analysis of Two-Alternative Decision Errors in a Videopanorama-based Remote Control Tower Work Position N. Fürstenau, M. Friedrich, M. Mittendorf German Aerospace Center, Inst. of Flight Guidance, Braunschweig, Germany [email protected] Remote Control Tower operation (RTO) for airport ground traffic control without the need for a local physical tower building is presently in...

Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) potentially offer objective, continuous, and nonintrusive measures of human-operator’s mental workload. Such measurement capability is attractive for workload assessment in complex laboratory simulations or safety-critical field testing. The present study compares mean HR and HRV data with self-reported subjective workload ratings collected durin...

Surface operations at airports in the US are based on tactical operations, where departure aircraft primarily queue up and wait at the departure runways. NASA’s Spot And Runway Departure Advisor (SARDA) tool was developed to address these inefficiencies through Air Traffic Control Tower advisories. The SARDA system is being updated to include collaborative gate hold, either tactically or strate...

The object of research is the professional activity an air traffic controller airport control tower (henceforth Tower controller). subject regularities revealing in this specialist performance its work responsibility for trainee reference model formation intelligent training system «ATC Tower». One most problematic areas lack systems that would allow independent these aviation specialists, whos...

This work * presents a new method to automatically search the best routes and schedules for airport ground operations, within a decision support system for tower controllers, a hard real-world application. It explores the potential advantages of hybridizing two complementary types of algorithmic approaches to find solutions with minimum delay: a genetic algorithm and a time-space dynamic flow m...


 Facilities at the airport are divided into two main parts consisting of land side and air side. Existing facilities on consist of: passenger terminal, cargo operational building, traffic control tower or Air Traffic Control (ATC), SAR (Search Rescue) meteorological main/VIP class entrance , fueling as well administrative office buildings. While runways, taxiways, aircraft parking areas, ...

The significant contribution of human error to overall system risk for air traffic management systems has been recognised for some time. It therefore follows that when changes are being made to an ATM system, an important part of the safety assurance for that system is the risk assessment and mitigation for the human element. NATS are in the process of making a number of significant changes to ...