RHEA - Role of the Human in the Evolution of Air Traffic Management Systems
Overview
Background & policy context:
Looking at the human role in future Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems, there is a risk of implementing unsuitable automation concepts and systems that fail to support air traffic controllers. A detailed understanding of the best possible allocation of functions between the human controller and the automated system is essential to ensure the success of new ATM concepts. If air traffic controllers refuse to use appropriate automated components, it could result in an inefficient use of resources or even impair the safe and reliable performance of the whole ATM system.
Objectives:
RHEA aimed to provide automation strategies to systematically guide the decision process for automating functions in an ATM system that can accommodate growth in air traffic, while at the same time maintaining (or even enhancing) safety and efficiency levels and giving the air traffic controllers a satisfying job. Specific objectives have been to identify and evaluate functions that currently play a role in ATM and to add new ones, likely to become of interest in the future. The aim here was to build a common classification scheme of automation concepts. The concluding project objective was to produce functional requirements of the possible roles for human operators in future ATM systems, and associated automated assistance tools on different intervention levels.
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