Automatic prevention of label overlap

Details

• 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:
  Advanced Automation System (Air Traffic Control) 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.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project EU 199
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2234d52bbcae472e96818b5c65c7db0a17045e0b69da9a99fdbb9c81cb991bb9
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8694/dot_8694_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.07 MB ]