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Due to high implementation costs of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) in the near-term, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCos) will have to manage mixed equipped airspace. Previous studies have evaluated different methods for training ATCos to use current-day tools and NextGen tools. More specifically, recent studies investigated how ATCo performance, workload, and situation awareness were affected by part-task and whole-task training. The current study builds on this research by examining ATCos' communication complexity as a function of these training types. Communication complexity is related to the number of commands ATCos incorporate in a single transmission, and it has been cited as a major contributor to incidents in aviation. The main finding of this investigation indicated that the largest differences in communication complexity between training groups occurred during the 100% NextGen equipped scenarios, with the whole-task group transmitting more complex communications than the part-task group.
Advisor: | Chiappe, Dan |
Commitee: | Strybel, Thomas Z., Vu, Kim-Phuong L. |
School: | California State University, Long Beach |
Department: | Psychology |
School Location: | United States -- California |
Source: | MAI 55/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International |
Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
Subjects: | Cognitive psychology |
Keywords: | Air traffic control, Communication complexity, Nextgen |
Publication Number: | 10096076 |
ISBN: | 978-1-339-60213-4 |