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Title
Communications Between Air Traffic Controllers and Pilots During Simulated Arrivals: Relation of Closed Loop Communication Deviations to Loss of Separation
Description
Communications between air traffic controllers and pilots are critical to national airspace traffic management. Measuring communications in real time made by pilots and air traffic controllers has the potential to predict human error. In this thesis a measure for Deviations from Closed Loop Communications is defined and tested to predict a human error event, Loss of Separation (LOS). Six retired air traffic controllers were recruited and tested in three conditions of varying workload in an Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility (TRACON) arrival radar simulation. Communication transcripts from simulated trials were transcribed and coding schemes for Closed Loop Communication Deviations (CLCD) were applied. Results of the study demonstrated a positive correlation between CLCD and LOS, indicating that CLCD could be a variable used to predict LOS. However, more research is required to determine if CLCD can be used to predict LOS independent of other predictor variables, and if CLCD can be used in a model that considers many different predictor variables to predict LOS.
Date Created
2020
Contributors
- Lieber, Christopher Shane (Author)
- Cooke, Nancy J. (Thesis advisor)
- Gutzwiller, Robert S (Committee member)
- Niemczyk, Mary (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
73 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.63064
Level of coding
minimal
Note
Masters Thesis Human Systems Engineering 2020
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System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 2 months ago
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