Collision Avoidance for Airport Traffic simulation evaluation

Author

Jones, Denise R. ; Prinzel, Lawrence J. ; Shelton, Kevin J. ; Bailey, Randall E. ; Otero, Sharon D. ; Barker, D.

Author_Institution

Nat. Aeronaut. & Space Adm., Hampton, VA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

3-7 Oct. 2010

Abstract

A Collision Avoidance for Airport Traffic (CAAT) concept for the airport Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) was evaluated in a simulation study at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center. CAAT is being designed to enhance surface situation awareness and provide cockpit alerts of potential conflicts during runway, taxi, and low altitude air-to-air operations. The purpose of the study was to evaluate pilot reaction to conflict events in the TMA near the airport, different alert timings for various scenarios, alerting display concepts, and directive alerting concepts. This paper gives an overview of the conflict detection and resolution (CD&R) concept, simulation study, and test results.

Keywords

aerospace simulation; air traffic control; aircraft displays; airports; collision avoidance; CAAT; Langley Research Center; NASA; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; TMA; airport terminal maneuvering area; airport traffic simulation; alerting display concept; cockpit; collision avoidance for airport traffic; conflict detection; low altitude air-to-air operation; pilot reaction; runway; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Atmospheric modeling; Monitoring; Navigation; Safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2010 IEEE/AIAA 29th

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

2155-7195

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6616-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2010.5655378

Filename

5655378