Human-in-the-loop evaluation of NextGen concepts in the airspace operations laboratory

AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Prevot, Thomas ^a   Lee, Paul ^a   Callantine, Todd ^a   Mercer, Joey ^a   Homola, Jeffrey ^a   Smith, Nancy ^b   Palmer, Everett ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC ORGANIZATIONS; HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP EVALUATION; MODELING AND SIMULATION; MULTI AIRCRAFT CONTROL SYSTEMS; NEXT-GENERATION AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; SIMULATION CAPABILITY; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL TOWERS; NASA; RESEARCH;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84880850901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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