United States Department of Transportation
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Moving Toward An Air Traffic Control Display Standard : Creating a Standardized Color Palette for Terminal Situation Displays
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2008-12-01
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Abstract:As the Federal Aviation Administration moves toward the implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, there is a need to increase commonality and standardization across Air Traffic Control (ATC) displays. Increased standardization will reduce development costs and training requirements, as well as ensure that new ATC systems follow human factors guidelines and best practices. The Air Traffic Control Display Standard provides specific design standards for ATC displays that are grounded in human factors research and lessons learned from the field. Previous guidelines on the use of color lacked specificity and were difficult for system developers to implement. This document provides specific standards for the use of color on ATC situation displays in the terminal domain. We developed the standards by measuring the colors used on existing systems to determine whether the colors met human factors guidelines for attention, identification, segmentation, and text legibility. When existing colors did not follow the guidelines, we developed alternatives. In this report, we provide a standard color palette. We list individual display elements (e.g., datablocks, radar targets) and specific color names and coordinates for each element. We also provide guidance for system developers and vendors to help them implement the standard color palette on their systems.
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