Dynamic Airspace Configuration (DAC) Highlights - Fiscal Year 2013
Screenshot of OASIS (Click image to enlarge)
The technical work for the Dynamic Airspace Configuration research area was ended during this fiscal year, after having completed investigations into the Operational Airspace Sectorization Integrated System (OASIS) algorithm. In January 2013, the OASIS algorithm was tested in a HITL evaluation in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at Ames Research Center. OASIS is intended to assist FAA En Route Area Supervisors in their planning of sector combine/decombine operations as well as opening/closing of Data-side (D-side) control positions; these advisory solutions are tailored to the predicted traffic demand over the next few hours. Eight retired FAA personnel served as experiment participants for a part-task evaluation of OASIS functionality, covering the user interface as well as the underlying algorithm. Participants gave very positive feedback on both the user interface and the algorithm solutions for airspace configuration, including a rating of 93% on the tool usability scale.
