BACKGROUND Otitis media is one of the most common infections in young children. Although exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a known risk factor associated with otitis media, little information is available regarding the potential association with air pollution. OBJECTIVE We set out to study the relationship between exposure to traffic-related air pollution and otitis media in two birt...

The U.S. air transportation system is the most productive in the world, moving far more people and goods than any other. It is also the safest system in the world, thanks in part to its venerable air traffic control system. But as demand for air travel continues to grow, the air traffic control system’s aging infrastructure and labor-intensive procedures are impinging on its ability to keep pac...

This paper discusses the service availability criteria that representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) have defined for air traffic control (ATC) air/ground (A/G) voice communications in the Gulf of Mexico. In order to evaluate these criteria, models that relate airspace coverage with the availability of ground-based communications systems had to...

BACKGROUND Biologically plausible mechanisms link traffic-related air pollution to metabolic disorders and potentially to obesity. Here we sought to determine whether traffic density and traffic-related air pollution were positively associated with growth in body mass index (BMI = kg/m2) in children aged 5-11 years. METHODS Participants were drawn from a prospective cohort of children who liv...

The increase in air traffic has the immediate consequence of creating new techniques for air traffic control, as well as new procurement data procedures and data reporting. For these purposes, secondary radars have been developed under the standard ADS-B that should be implemented in coming years on a mandatory basis. In this article, an application of ADS-B radars, capable of introducing the a...

The Surface Management System (SMS) is a decision support tool that helps tower traffic coordinators and Ground/Local controllers manage and control airport surface traffic in order to increase capacity, efficiency, and flexibility. SMS provides common situation awareness to personnel at various air traffic control facilities such as air traffic control towers (ATCTs), airline ramp towers, the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Traffic noise disturbs sleep and may impair recuperation. There is limited information on single and combined effects of air, road, and rail traffic noise on sleep and recuperation. DESIGN Repeated measures. SETTING Polysomnographic laboratory study. PARTICIPANTS 72 healthy subjects, mean ± standard deviation 40 ± 13 years, range 18-71 years, 32 male. INTERVENTIONS Expos...

Research on user interaction on air traffic control can lead to dealing with new air traffic management (ATM) concepts. That is especially the case for research on collaboration tools between controllers. Focusing on collaborations quickly shows ATM as a workflow, that is an information-based process where many different actors interact in succession with the same pieces of information. In this...

BACKGROUND The question of whether air pollution contributes to asthma onset remains unresolved. OBJECTIVES In this study, we assessed the association between asthma onset in children and traffic-related air pollution. METHODS We selected a sample of 217 children from participants in the Southern California Children's Health Study, a prospective cohort designed to investigate associations b...