Abstract Air Traffic Control (ATC) for civil aviation in the U.S. is currently performed based upon voice communications between controllers and aircraft pilots through radio channels. The essentially manual operations of the ATC and its communications, due to their limited efficiency and reliability, may become a potential bottleneck to the developments of the continuously growing air transportation systems. In order to assist government efforts in pursuing alternatives for future improvements in ATC communications performance, a computer simulation model was constructed and validated in a previously reported research effort. This model was then used to perform experiments to investigate various events of practical concern. In this paper we report three such applications, namely (i) to estimate communications capacities of control sectors of various functions in the New York area; (ii) to investigate the effects, especially extra communication delays, incurred by a tone-burst scheme for aircraft identification proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); and (iii) to evaluate improvements in communications capacity and queuing due to a reduction in average number of transmissions per communication transaction. Emphasis is placed upon the stochastic-dynamic aspects of computer- generated responses. Several newly developed statistical methods are used to analyze simulation outputs. This study, the author believes, represents a first serious attempt in the literature of transportation science, to conduct a complete, large-scale simulation investigation of the behavior of ATC communications.
Analysis of air traffic control communications performances via computer simulation experiments
Transportation Research Part A: General ; 14 , 4 ; 285-299
1979-09-19
15 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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