Design, integration and evaluation of an application for input of taxiroutes

Earlier research has explored the potential of aircraft-based route conformance monitoring for airport navigation. In this research, the route-conformance monitoring function was hosted on an experimental electronic flight bag (EFB) and evaluated in a simulated operation. A datalink was used to load the route from air traffic control (ATC). The current research addresses the design, integration and evaluation of a manual input option and the comparison with a previously developed voice input option. Results suggest that with the manual input option it is possible to enter the route during its reception (i.e. instructions from ATC via R/T) and perform the readback based on the data presented on the EFB. This way, the integrity of the route used by the conformance-monitoring function is assessed by ATC.