Toward a new organization for air traffic control

Abstract

Increases in air traffic and air traffic controller workload lead to a need to provide assistance to the air traffic controller. Proposes and validates a new organization of air traffic control, which allows air traffic controllers to remain active in the control and supervisory loop of the process, in order to maintain the present traffic safety level and to improve the global system performances. Consists of decomposing the problem according to the two levels of the air traffic control organization. Directs the first step towards a horizontal cooperation that consists of a dynamic allocation of the tactical level control tasks between human air traffic controllers and an assistance tool. Presents the dynamic task allocation principles, and describes the experimental platform for task allocation in air traffic control. Describes the experimental protocol used for the experiments with qualified controllers and presents the first results. They show the real help a dynamic task allocation provides to the air traffic controllers.