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Application of Dynamic Sectorization in Air Traffic Controller Workload Balancing

Farsad, Mahsa | 2011

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 41401 (45)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Aerospace Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Malaek, Mohammad Bagher
  7. Abstract:
  8. In order to manage a complex system, one way is to divide it into smaller parts. That’s the reason airspace in each country should be divided into sectors. Currently, these sectors have fixed areas and each is controlled by a number of air traffic controllers. However, the traffic crossing these sectors is considerably dynamic, which means the traffic density and its distribution varies seasonally, weakly and even through the 24 hours of a day. Moreover, weather conditions and security and military issues make constraints to some of these sectors. This sometimes results in some high traffic sectors while some others have very low traffic density which causes two main problems. One is that, by increasing traffic, controllers’ capacity in high traffic sectors reaches its highest possible workload in a way the controllers cannot accept any other aircrafts in that sector till the traffic decreases. Another problem is that, too much or very low workload increases the risk of controllers’ mistakes. In this thesis, a new method is being analyzed to show that it is possible to divide traffic among controllers using the Design Structure Matrix in a way that possible conflicts which require controllers’ attention are minimized and the workload is divided uniformly among controllers. Simulations show the proposed method is a convenient tool in managing the traffic flow
  9. Keywords:
  10. Design Structure Matrix ; Work Load ; Clustering ; Dynamic Sectorization

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