Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

City

Dayton

Abstract

The current evolution of the ATM system, led by the SESAR programme in Europe and the NextGen programme in the US, is foreseen to bring a paradigm shift to the work domain of the air traffic controller. A focal point is the introduction of the 4D (space and time) trajectory as a means for strategic management rather than the current –hands on– method of control. In both programmes a central role is foreseen for the human operator, aided by higher levels of automation and advanced decision support tools. However, many other complex socio-technical domains have shown that the transition to higher levels of automation often introduces new problems, problems that are harder to resolve than the ones intended to solve in the first place. This paper presents one approach to the design of a shared representation for 4D trajectory management. The ultimate goal is to design a shared representation which forms the basis for both the design of the humanmachine interfaces and the rationale that guides the automation. It is expected that such a shared representation will greatly benefit the joint cognition of humans and automated agents in ATM and will mitigate breakdowns in coordination by design. A preliminary version of a joint cognitive representation for 4D trajectory management has been developed and is introduced in this paper. Future work will focus on the further development and refinement of shared representations by means of human-in-the-loop experiments.

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