Table Of ContentADVANCES IN AIR
NAVIGATION SERVICES
Edited by Tone Magister
ADVANCES IN AIR
NAVIGATION SERVICES
Edited by Tone Magister
Advances in Air Navigation Services
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2574
Edited by Tone Magister
Contributors
Andrej Grebenšek, S.M.B. Abdul Rahman, C. Borst, M. Mulder, M.M. van Paassen, Claudine
Mélan, Edith Galy, Tony Diana, Kazuo Furuta, Kouhei Ohno, Taro Kanno, Satoru Inoue, R.
Arnaldo, F.J. Sáez, E. Garcia, Y. Portillo, Tone Magister, Franc Željko Županič, Luca Montanari,
Roberto Baldoni, Fabrizio Morciano, Marco Rizzuto, Francesca Matarese, José Miguel Canino,
Juan Besada Portas, José Manuel Molina, Jesús García
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Contents
Preface IX
Chapter 1 Efficiency Assurance of Human-Centered
and Technology Driven Air Traffic Management 1
Andrej Grebenšek
Chapter 2 Measuring Sector Complexity:
Solution Space-Based Method 11
S.M.B. Abdul Rahman, C. Borst,
M. Mulder and M.M. van Paassen
Chapter 3 Recall Performance in Air Traffic Controllers Across
the 24-hr Day: Influence of Alertness
and Task Demands on Recall Strategies 35
Claudine Mélan and Edith Galy
Chapter 4 Predicting Block Time:
An Application of Quantile Regression 55
Tony Diana
Chapter 5 Simulation of Team Cooperation Processes
in En-Route Air Traffic Control 69
Kazuo Furuta, Kouhei Ohno,
Taro Kanno and Satoru Inoue
Chapter 6 Probability of Potential Collision
for Aircraft Encounters in High Density Airspaces 87
R. Arnaldo, F.J. Sáez, E. Garcia and Y. Portillo
Chapter 7 The Autonomous Flight 105
Tone Magister and Franc Željko Županič
Chapter 8 How to Manage Failures
in Air Traffic Control Software Systems 129
Luca Montanari, Roberto Baldoni, Fabrizio Morciano,
Marco Rizzuto and Francesca Matarese
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Chapter 9 A Multi-Agent Approach for Designing
Next Generation of Air Traffic Systems 147
José Miguel Canino, Juan Besada Portas,
José Manuel Molina and Jesús García
Preface
While midnight festivities still echoed the ether was electrified as European air navigation
services providers subconscious minds merged on January 1st 2012 hoping that they will
perform in accordance with the expectations of the just-born performance scheme. Is this an
overture to the page-turner of success or endless soap-opera of debacle?
Nobody yet invented the universal formula that govern the provision of air navigation
services for any given combination of air traffic flow, its variability and complexity,
airspace configuration and operational environment. It is only certain that the magic
formula should in order to fit snugly in any case, simultaneously consider variables of
people, procedures, systems and environment. The authors of this book are proving
the statement as their contributions focus on developments in the field of air
navigation services from a wealth of particular different aspects.
Actually it is all about competent people that communicate to each other supported by
technology providing them necessary information for orchestrated coordination of
glorious dance of safely separated aircraft. Since the weakest link in the chain is the
human, it is envisaged that systems themselves should communicate. However,
machines are not yet able to think nor improvise for brilliant lifesaving solutions in
cases of emergencies. For the time, the air navigation services and especially air traffic
(control and management) services will remain human oriented but technology driven
endeavour.
Provision of air navigation services entered a new era of performance scheme. The
performance scheme provides binding targets on four key performance areas of safety,
capacity, environment and cost-efficiency. It is imposed that targets are fully achieved,
but it is not prescribed how, this being typical for the performance based and goal
oriented regulation. Those key performance areas are interlaced by proportional and
inversely proportional interdependencies. Namely, for example and simplified into
one sentence; if one aims to increase sector capacity with existing human resources
(constant staff costs) and not investing into the technology (constant support cost) to
achieve improved cost-efficiency of service provision, the resulting overloaded system
might unlock the Pandora box of latent safety issues. Since failure is not an option, we
– the general, migrating and traveling public, airspace users, airport operators, air
navigation services providers and the economy – will gain attaining the goals of
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performance scheme in the process. However, un-answered cardinal question is what
is the winning strategy? This book provides do-not-forget-peculiarities insight into the
elements of new business model of air navigation services provision as evolution of
the latter became essential.
It was a pleasure editing this book and I am sincerely grateful to all the authors for
their efforts invested into the future of air navigation services represented by this
book.
Associate Professor Dr Tone Magister
SLOVENIA CONTROL, Slovenian Air Navigation Services, Ltd.
Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia
