A brief study of airport ground traffic control surveillance parameters has been conducted. The study addressed the following questions by means of a set of simple experiments: (1) Can vehicle ID be displayed in a suitable format; (2) What size display is required by ground controllers and by local controllers if their surveillance requirements are to be met;(3) What effect does viewing distance have on the size of the display required; (4) What is the effect of update rate on the ability of controllers to extract velocity information.
As part of a nationwide airport ground traffic control requirements study, a survey of nine airports has been made to gather data. At each airport, pr...
This study investigated factors that contribute to complexity and their incidence within Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Control Towers (A...
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