Applying Cognitive Engineering Principles to Allocation of Roles and Responsibilities for a Future Air Traffic Management Concept

摘要

NASA’s Management by Trajectory (MBT) concept will improve trajectory predictability by providingmethods to keep aircraft on negotiated trajectories; however, the concept impacts roles and responsibilities.Most notably, MBT envisions a different distribution of responsibilities between the Radar-side and Dataside(herein called the negotiating) controllers. Cognitive engineering provides a rich history of researchinto understanding the roles that humans and automation play in complex systems and some principles forsystem design. This paper briefly summarizes this literature, focusing on principles underlying theproposed allocation of responsibilities in MBT and the source of automation and information requirements.