Visual flight rules (VFR) traffic is routinely excluded from capacity models and workload assessments in terminal airspace, despite its potential to increase air traffic controller (ATCO) workload. This exploratory pilot study examined the associatio...
Air Traffic Controllers’ (ATCos) mental workload is likely to remain the specific greatest functional limitation on the capacity of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. Developing computational models to monitor mental workload and task com...
Air traffic controllers (ATCOs) play a substantial part in securing the safety of flights, such that a compromise of the ATCOs’ performance may lead to tragedies. Given the mental workload that comes with the nature of ATCOs’ work, this s...
Assistant Based Speech Recognition (ABSR) systems for air traffic control radiotelephony communication have shown their potential to reduce air traffic controllers’ (ATCos) workload. Related research activities mainly focused on utterances for...
Air traffic controllers (ATCOs) make a significant contribution to ensuring flight safety, making this profession a highly stressful job globally. Job demands–resources (JDR) theory proposes a health impairment process stemming from job demand...
Automatic speech recognition and understanding (ASRU) for air traffic control (ATC) has been investigated in different ATC environments and applications. The objective of this study was to quantify the effect of ASRU support for air traffic controlle...
The global shortage of air traffic controllers (ATCOs) has led to significant challenges. One of them is the high workload of ATCOs, often resulting in flight delays. This makes it essential to develop solutions that reduce ATCOs’ workload in o...
The study of human factors in aviation makes an important contribution to safety. Within this discipline, real-time simulations (RTS) are a very powerful tool. The use of simulators allows for exercises with controlled air traffic control (ATC) event...
With increasing air traffic, the workload of air traffic controllers (ATCOs) and their limited number is again a restricting factor for the evolution of airspace management. Currently, possibilities to apply artificial intelligence for improving the...
Air traffic complexity is the degree of difficulty in monitoring and managing a specific air traffic situation, and it is one of the main drivers of Air Traffic Controller (ATCO) workload. Previously developed terminal air traffic complexity models a...
Automated alert systems for air traffic controllers (ATCOs) often generate many nuisance visual warnings that ATCOs routinely ignore, potentially compromising safety. To explore an alternative modality, we tested vibrotactile alerts to warn ATCOs of...
Voice communication between air traffic controllers (ATCos) and pilots is critical for ensuring safe and efficient air traffic control (ATC). The handling of these voice communications requires high levels of awareness from ATCos and can be tedious a...
In order to quantify the core competency of air traffic controllers (ATCO) in multi-post mode, and analyze the ATCO competency-post fit (CPF) degree, this paper proposes the AFE-TOPSIS evaluation method based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP),...
This paper deals with the air traffic controller (ATCo) work shift scheduling problem. This is a multi-objective optimization problem, as it involves identifying the best possible distribution of ATCo work and rest periods and positions, ATCo workloa...
Voice communication is the main channel to exchange information between pilots and Air-Traffic Controllers (ATCos). Recently, several projects have explored the employment of speech recognition technology to automatically extract spoken key informati...
Air Traffic Control Officers (ATCOs) are responsible for controlling air traffic and ensuring the safety of the aircraft. Capacity, understood as the maximum number of aircraft that can be safely managed for one hour, is calculated based on the workl...
The information air traffic controllers (ATCos) communicate via radio telephony is valuable for digital assistants to provide additional safety. Yet, ATCos have to enter this information manually. Assistant-based speech recognition (ABSR) has proven...
Today, aircraft demand is exceeding the capacity of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. As a result, airspace is becoming a very complex environment to control. The complexity of airspace is thus closely related to the workload of controllers and i...
Due to the introduction of highly automated vehicles and systems, the tasks of operators (drivers, pilots, air traffic controllers, production process managers) are in transition from “active control” to “passive monitoring” a...
Complex inter-subject variability induces severe distribution shifts in the physiological features of electroencephalography (EEG) for air traffic controllers (ATCOs). These inter-subject shifts limit the generalization and interpretability of passiv...
The continuous growth of air traffic has significantly increased the workload of air traffic controllers (ATCOs), posing challenges to the efficient and safe operation of area control. This paper proposes an intelligent decision-making framework for...