Applying Pretopological Concepts & Negotiation Analysis to Study Cockpit’s Perspective to Collaborative Decision Making

Objective: This research is designed to present a methodological approach for problems encountered with cockpits perspective to collaborate decision making in order to support the Air Transport Management (ATM) with simulation software development and system behaviour simulation. Background: Collaborative decision making (CDM) is a means to challenge punctuality and reliability issues at congested airports in order to raise operational capacity at the airport and air space structure, not by sophisticated optimization algorithms rather than just information sharing and common situational awareness. Initial concepts of CDM emphasize the importance of global collaboration among interactions between airport operators, air traffic control (ATC), airlines, ground handling service providers and the central flow management unit (CFMU). From cockpits perspective, CDM should be considered as a means to allow participation of flight crews in air-traffic decision making that affects them. This applies to all decisions ranging from operational to safety issues during all phases of flight/ ground operation. From cockpits perspective, two main issues should be addressed: • How can information sharing/ common situational awareness between flight crews and ground parties be accomplished in order to achieve a high level of punctuality and predictability during flight/ground operation. • Is it possible to improve operation by cooperation of all parties. Method: This approach is based upon mathematical tools like pretopological and decision making concepts. Negotiation Analysis approaches decision making in order to identify prescriptive, normative and descriptive decision concepts. Distinctions are made among the prototypical and unitary perspective of an individual decision maker (pilot), and the dynamics between multiple decision entities (airline operator, ATC). In complex systems decision entities can also have a different structure. Pretopological concepts are used to identify groups of interdependent elements (for example pilot-controller relation) and elements which are related with each other within the Air Transport System (for example pilot-pilot relation).