New York Integrated Control Concept (NYICC) Evaluation
Updated:02:58 PM March 20, 2009
The NYICC concept of operations proposes, in part, to collocate terminal and en route air traffic controllers and to expand the airspace that can use terminal separation standards in current en route areas. The Human Factors Team-Atlantic City conducted two high fidelity, human-in-the-loop simulations to examine the possible implications of the NYICC in terms of system efficiency and controller communication, workload, and performance. One experiment examined arrival traffic flows and the other examined departure traffic flows.
Both experiments integrated multiple terminal and en route radar sectors with their associated handoff positions to compare three experimental conditions. In the Normal condition, the controllers worked as they normally would with a wall separating the terminal and en route sectors. In the Collocated condition, the wall was removed so that the terminal and en route controllers could communicate face-to-face.
n the Terminalized condition, the controllers were collocated and lateral separation standards were reduced for particular en route sectors, essentially extending the boundaries of the terminal airspace. The final report on these two experiments will be available to the public in 2004.
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