ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe validated air traffic scenarios made available for ATC human factors researchers to use in Human-in the-Loop (HITL) simulations. The chapter also includes a description of how researchers at the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) developed the scenarios by first identifying airspace sectors in which the scenarios would occur, choosing scenario events, and validating the scenarios for realism. A URL where the scenarios can be freely downloaded in Microsoft Excel format is provided. The authors hope that having access to these scenarios will save researchers, who run HITL simulations as part of their ATC human factors studies, the time and money it costs to develop and validate them on their own. In return, if researchers using these scenarios report their performance measures, it will enable the comparison of proposed new procedures and technologies and the insight that can be gained from making those comparisons for system development going forward.
