Professor Eri Itoh received Best of Session Air Traffic Control Human Factors Award

This paper proposed a new air traffic control system targeting the ASEAN airspace, where future increases in air traffic demand are anticipated. It evaluated the operational feasibility of air traffic controllers through human-in-the-loop simulation experiments that simulated radar control at en-route facilities in the future. The paper suggested several findings, such as the determination of air traffic controllability by the number of interactions with surrounding air traffic rather than the number of aircraft flying in the target airspace, and the possibility of minimizing the number of air traffic controllers by grouping the air traffic based on its direction of movement.