National Voice Response System (VRS) Implementation Plan Alternatives Study.

Abstract

This study examines the alternatives available to implement a national Voice Response System (VRS) for automated preflight weather briefings and flight plan filing. Four major hardware configurations are discussed. A computerized analysis model was developed and used to determine relative merits, costs, and sensitivities of key factors such as centralized vs. decentralized networks, demand levels, average call duration, partial implementation, fail-soft operations, WATS vs. FX telephone service, VRS channel sizing and projected demand growth. The study shows that excessive communication costs predominated the centralized configuration alternatives. The minimum cost system, which is also the recommended one, is a distributed processor configuration with 20 Data Base Processor sites and 134 VRS sites. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA075306

Entities

People

  • H. Glynn
  • I. Englander
  • J. Richards
  • J. Sigona
  • M. Medeiros

Organizations

  • John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computers
  • Conductive Polymers
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Databases
  • Fail Safe
  • Ions
  • Maintenance
  • Memory
  • Network Protocols
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Reliability
  • Telephone Lines

Readers

  • Computer Engineering
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Systems Analysis and Design