Automatic prevention of label overlap

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• Creators:
  Thayer, F. E. ; Johnson, A. E. ; Hopkin, V. D.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; National Air Traffic Services (Great Britain) ; Great Britain. Civil Aviation Authority. Air Traffic Control Evaluation Unit
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air traffic control
  • Advanced automation system (Air traffic control)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  421
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United Kingdom
• Corporate Publisher:
  Great Britain. Civil Aviation Authority ; Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors
• Abstract:
  The project comprised a number of simulation exercises ; designed to evaluate methods of either preventing or ; resolving the problems likely to be caused by label overlap on ; Labelled Plan Displays (LPD). The automatic prevention of ; label overlap was investigated in ATCEU Project EU 146, (ATCEU ; Report No 35l). These earlier trials determined that one of the ; methods used, automatically alternating overlapping labels, was ; not suitable. The report concluded that the other methods used, ; machine re-positioning and reversion to a tabular display, were ; effective whether used separately or together, but that they should ; be brought into operation manually and not automatically. The ; exercises in EU 146 compared the amount of data v/hich controllers ; could extract from the LPD when the different methods of preventing ; overlap were used. The controllers were not exercising any control ; function, nor was there any other source of flight data such as ; a flight progress board. The project which is the subject of this ; report was a follow-up of the earlier trial, using manually ; controlled methods as had been recommended, and conducted in an ; active control environment. The simulation also presented an ; opportunity to demonstrate a new input device, the Touch Sensitive ; Digitiser (TSD)• This was in no way an evaluation of the device, ; but some observations on its use in the ATC role are included ; after the discussion section. The project was sponsored by the ; Director of Control (Plans) NATS, and carried out at the ATCEU ; Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport in two stages, a pilot study between ; 11 and 29 June and the main simulation between 13 August and 14 ; September 1973.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project EU 199
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8694/dot_8694_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.07 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2234d52bbcae472e96818b5c65c7db0a17045e0b69da9a99fdbb9c81cb991bb9