A Framework for the Development of the ATM Weather Integration Concept

Abstract

Weather accounts for a majority of the air traffic delays within the National Airspace System (NAS) [Federal Aviation Administration, 2010]. The task of taking meteorological information (e.g., weather observations and forecasts) and turning it into the impact values needed to devise operationally effective air traffic management (ATM)1 solutions is left almost completely up to the individual human decision maker today. This means that the accurate assessment of the impact of a forecast weather constraint and the quality of the resultant ATM initiative(s) is dependent in large part on the cognitive capability, skill and experience level of the decision maker [Federal Aviation Administration, 2007]. In some cases, the degree of difficulty of weather-related ATM problems is so great as to render all manual solutions suboptimal, regardless of how skillful and experienced the decision maker might be.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2013
Accession Number
AD1108749

Entities

People

  • Bill Flathers
  • Matt Fronzak

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Navigation
  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Control Systems
  • Air Transportation
  • Aircrafts
  • Airports
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diagrams
  • Flight Crews
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Meteorology
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Teamwork
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transportation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Space