Runway Incursion Studies in NASA's Future Flight Central

Abstract

In recent years the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made reduction of runway incursions a priority for surface operations throughout the national airspace system. In a series of experiments conducted in April 2001, NASA studied alternatives designed to improve the efficient movement of surface traffic and reduce runway incursions at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The experiments were conducted in NASA Ames Research Center’s FutureFlight Central (FFC), a full virtual reality air traffic control tower cab simulator. This paper details the lifecycle of the safety studies from design to execution, describes the alternatives that were proposed for runway incursion reduction, and offers a brief summary of the experiment results.

Original document

The different versions of the original document can be found in:

• http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1834/c53adef8ba95ad0dc7fd7d171eb89db52f59.pdf

• http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2002-5811,

http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2002-5811

• https://www.aviationsystemsdivision.arc.nasa.gov/publications/hitl/technical/runway.pdf,

https://www.aviationsystems.arc.nasa.gov/publications/hitl/technical/runway.pdf,

http://www.aviationsystemsdivision.arc.nasa.gov/publications/hitl/technical/runway.pdf,

https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=724981,

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2002-5811,

http://www.aviationsystems.arc.nasa.gov/publications/hitl/technical/runway.pdf,

https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2110026367