Benefits of Direct-to-Tool in National Airspace System

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 190-197

  Sridhar, Banavar ^a,b   Chatterji, Gano Broto ^a   Grabbe, Shon Randall ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Systems Control Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic automation; Benefits; Decision support tools; Direct to tool; National airspace system; Traffic flow management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347794864     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6979.898221     Document Type: Article

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