Validating Dynamic Sectorization for Air Traffic Control Due to Climate Sensitive Areas: Designing Effective Air Traffic Control Strategies

Air Traffic Control

This project simulates the movement of aircraft through a region of airspace surrounding an airfield. The task involves modelling the various aircraft, airfield and airspace, as well as their various properties and movements. In addition, it is hoped to model the interactions between various aircraft, such as collision avoidance and convoy-style flight. The project utilises the relational aspec...

Safety Culture in Air Traffic Management: Air Traffic Control

In a joint research project – Human Factors in Air Navigation Services, HUFA – between the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration and Lund University the focus is on human and organizational factors and safety in air traffic control. The Swedish Air Navigation Services (ANS) are undergoing major organizational changes in order to adapt to changing demands on efficiency and technical development ...

Planning in Air Traffic Control

Dialogues in Air Traffic Control

We have taken an off-the-shelf, commercial continuous speech recogniser and conducted evaluations for the domain of Air Traffic Control. The language of this domain proved to be quite unrestricted, contrary to our initial intuitions. Our experiments show that constraints typically used by speech recognisers do not provide accurate enough results and need to be augmented with other knowledge sou...

Ground holding strategies for air traffic control under uncertainty

As air traffic congestion grows, ground-holding (or "gate-holding") of aircraft is becoming increasingly common. Ground-holding is the practice of delaying the departure of a flight due to anticipated congestion at the airport of destination, because it is both less expensive and safer, for aircraft to wait on the ground, prior to take-off, than in the air. The problem of developing strategies ...