This study compared the relative effectiveness of two constructs, sector activity and sector complexity, in predicting air traffic controller taskload. Sector activity was defined as the activity associated with aircraft moving through the sector and was measured by counting the number of aircraft under the control of the sector during a traffic sample. Sector complexity describes a set of factors presumed to affect the difficulty experienced by a controller when controlling traffic. Sector complexity was measured in two ways. The first measure of complexity was a subjective rating made by supervisors and controllers to describe the complexity associated with specific traffic samples. The second was a composite variable that included measures reflecting several of the complexity variables found in the literature. Taskload was defined as controller activity and was measured by counting the number of data entries made by a controller during a traffic sample. The results appear to suggest that our hypothesis, that sector activity predicted controller taskload better than sector complexity, was incorrect. However, interpretation of these results depended on consideration of what each of the variables measured. The Complexity Rating predicted controller activity better than the number of aircraft alone, but the Complexity Value (based on a set of variables identified through previous research) did not contribute at all to that prediction.


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    Title :

    Relationship of Sector Activity and Sector Complexity to Air Traffic Controller Taskload


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    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    14 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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