Challenges of Field Testing The Traffic Monitoring Advisor in an Operational Air Traffic Control Facility
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1997-01-01
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NTL Classification:NTL-AVIATION-Air Traffic Control;NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Human Factors;NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness;
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Abstract:The Traffic Management Advisor (TMA), the sequence and schedule tool of the
Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS), was evaluated at the Fort Worth Center
(ZFW) in the summer of 1996. This paper describes the challenges encountered
during the various phases of the TMA field evaluation, which included system
(hardware and software) installation, personnel training, and data collection.
Operational procedures were developed and applied to the evaluation process that
would ensure air safety. The five weeks of field evaluation imposed minimal
impact on the hosting facility and provided valuable engineering and human
factors data. The collection of data was very much an opportunistic affair, due
to dynamic traffic conditions. One measure of the success of the TMA evaluation
is that, rather than remove TMA after the evaluation until it could be fully
implemented, the prototype TMA is in continual use at ZFW as the fully
operational version is readied for implementation.
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