Virtual and Remote Control Tower Research, Design, Development and Validation [Paperback]

The interdisciplinary research and development work carried out in the last ten years which is presented in this book aimed at replacing the conventional airport control tower by a new remote tower operation work environment (RTO) which should enhance work efficiency and safety and reduce costs. This revolutionary humansystem interface allows for remote aerodrome traffic control without a physical tower building and enables the establishment of remote airport traffic control centers (RTC) of which each may serve several airports from a central location.

Part I Fundamentals & Preconditions.- Introduction and Overview.- Visual Features Used by Airport Tower Controllers: Some Implications for the Design of Remote or Virtual Towers.- Detection and Recognition for Remote Tower Operations.-  Part II Remote Tower Simulation Environment and Remote Tower Center.- Remote Tower Simulation Environment.- Assessing Operational Validity of Remote Tower Control in High Fidelity Simulation.- Video FrameRate Requirements from Visual Discrimination of Deceleration During Simulated Aircraft Landing.- Planning remote multiairport control  controllerfriendly assistance.- Part III RTO Engineering and Field Testing.- Augmented Vision Videopanorama Experimental System with Augmented Vision Videopanorama.- Remote Tower Prototype System and Automation Perspectives.- Which metrics provide the insight needed? A selection of remote tower evaluation metrics to support a remote tower operation concept validation.- Model-based Analysis of TwoAlternative Decision Errors in a Videopanoramabased Remote Tower Work Position.- Part IV Alternative Approaches and Perspectives.- The Advanced Remote Tower System and its Validation.- Remote Tower Research in the United States.

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