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capacity and efficiency goals. Deriving from these top level metrics will be a hierarchy
of metrics for measuring performance of system components, all of which need to be
defined to support the top level metrics.
2. Integration of Human Factors. There is a need to determine, in detail, the process
of how human factors can be incorporated into ATM system development, design,
integration and maintenance. The process should define both the nature and timing of
inputs. The plan for human factors involvement would then be available as guidelines
which could be used by decision makers in the system development process.
3. Role Definition. Focused and specific guidelines need to be produced on how to
determine and describe the eventual role of the humans in a system where the
functional allocation is to be human-centered. The kind of automation support
humans need will be identified by the requirements of the human role within the ATM
system. This activity must done as part of the operational concept definition phase of
system development and would be expected to identify very explicit research questions
that need to be answered as a part of preliminary design.
8.3.2 Research Tools Development
An integrated set of analysis and simulation tools needs to be developed, aimed at the
evaluation of preliminary design concepts for a selected U.S. high density air traffic area.
The tools must support the development of a transition plan from the current ATC
infrastructure to the future architecture and operation. This tool set will support the
identification of long range (up to 30 year) system capacity, safety and efficiency needs,
evaluation of alternative operational concepts, allocation of requirements to CNS and
ATM system elements, and evaluation of the safety, human performance suitability and
economics of alternative transition strategies.
A series of research tasks are needed for developing an operational performance baseline
of a high density air traffic services area. These tasks will establish traffic and
infrastructure forecasts, develop an integrated analysis tools set spanning overall system
operational modeling, technical CNS and ATM performance modeling, and economic
transition assessment. Also to be established is a database of technology (current and
emerging), as well as human performance tools and assessments. These tools and data
will be applied to the preliminary design and evaluation of the phased introduction of new
CNS/ATM technologies for high density traffic areas. A conceptual framework for this
set of preliminary design exploration tools is shown in Figure 8.1.
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