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Gong, C., and Chan, W. N., "Using Flight Manual Data to Derive Aero-Propulsive Models for Predicting Aircraft Trajectories," AIAA Aircraft Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1-3 Oct. 2002.
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Chan, W., Bach, R., and Walton, J., "Improving and Validating CTAS Performance Models" AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Denver, CO, Aug. 2000.
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Denery, D. G., Erzberger, H., Davis, T. J., Green, S. M., McNally, B. D., "Challenges of Air Traffic Management Research: Analysis, Simulation, and Field Test," AIAA-97-3832, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 1997.

Erzberger, H., "Design Principles and Algorithms for Automated Air Traffic Management," AGARD Lecture Series 200 Presentation, Madrid, Spain, Paris, France, and Moffett Field, California, USA, Nov. 1995.
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Denery, D. G. and Erzberger, H., "The Center-TRACON Automation System: Simulation and Field Testing," Proceedings of the Advanced Workshop on ATM (ATM 95) sponsored by the National Research Council of Italy, Capri, Italy, 2-6 Oct. 1995; NASA TM-110366, Aug. 1995.
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Harwood, K., "CTAS: An Alternative Approach to Developing and Evaluating Advanced ATC Automation," Automation and Human Performance, Mouloua, M. (Ed.), 4 May 1995.

Erzberger, H., "Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS)," Capacity Technology Subcommittee, FAA Research and Development Advisory Committee, Washington, DC, July 1994.

Sanford, B. D., Harwood, K., Nowlin, S., Bergeron, H., Heinrichs, H., Wells, G., and Hart, M., "Center/TRACON automation system: Development and evaluation in the field," 38th Annual Air Traffic Control Association Conference Proceedings, Oct. 1993.
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Erzberger, H., Davis, T. J., and Green, S. M., "Design of Center-TRACON Automation System," AGARD Meeting on Machine Intelligence in Air Traffic Management, Berlin, Germany, 11-14 May 1993.

Erzberger, H., "CTAS: Computer Intelligence for Air Traffic Control in the Terminal Area," NASA TM-103959, July 1992.

Erzberger, H., and Nedell, W., "Design of Automated System for Management of Arrival Traffic," NASA TM-102201, June 1989.
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Erzberger, H., and Nedell, W., "Design of Automation Tools for Management of Descent Traffic," NASA TM-101078, Dec. 1988.

Erzberger, H., "Automation Tools for Air Traffic Control," ATC-2000 Seminar, Eurocontrol Institute, Luxembourg, Feb. 1988.

Erzberger, H., and Tobias, L., "A Time-Based Concept for Terminal-Area Traffic Management," Proceedings of the 1986 AGARD Conference No. 410 on Efficient Conduct of Individual Flights and Air Traffic, Brussels, 10-13 June 1986, pp. 52-1 - 52-14; NASA TM-88243, June 1986.

Lee, H. Q., and Erzberger, H., "Time-Controlled Descent Guidance Algorithm for Simulation of Advanced ATC Systems," NASA TM-84373, 1983.

Erzberger, H., "Automation of On-Board Flight Management," 10th Theodore Von Karman Lecture, Israel Annual Conference on Aviation and Astronautics, Tel Aviv, Feb. 1982.

Erzberger, H., "Automation of On-Board Flight Management," NASA TM-84212, Dec. 1981.

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Human Factors

Walton, D., Quinn, C., and Atkins, S., "Human Factors Lessons Learned from a Surface Management System Simulation," AIAA Aircraft Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1-3 Oct. 2002.
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Lee, K. K., Kerns, K., Bone, R., and Nickelson, M., "Development and Validation of the Controller Acceptance Rating Scale (CARS): Results of Empirical Research," 4th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM-2001), Santa Fe, NM, 3-7 Dec. 2001.
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Quinn, C. M., and Robinson III, J. E., "A Human Factors Evaluation of Active Final Approach Spacing Tool Concepts," 3rd USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, Napoli, Italy, 13-16 June 2000.
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Lee, K. K., Quinn, C. M., Hoang, T., and Sanford, B. D., "Human Factors Report: TMA Operational Evaluations 1996 & 1998," NASA TM-2000-209587, Feb. 2000, pp. 53.
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Sanford, B. D., Smith, N., Lee, K. K., and Green, S. M., "Decision-aiding Automation for the En-route Controller: A Human Factors Field Evaluation," 10th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, April 1999.
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Lee, K. K., and Sanford, B. D., "The Passive Final Approach Spacing Tool (pFAST) Human Factors Operational Assessment," 2nd USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, Orlando, FL, 1-4 Dec. 1998.
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Lee, K. K., and Sanford, B. D., "Human Factors Assessment: The Passive Final Approach Spacing Tool (pFAST) Operational Evaluation," NASA TM-208750, Oct. 1998.
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Harwood, K., Sanford, B. D., and Lee, K. K., "Developing ATC Automation in the Field: It Pays to Get Your Hands Dirty," Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol. 6(1), 1998, pp. 45-70.
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Lee, K. K., Sanford, B. D., and Slattery, R. A., "The Human Factors of FMS Usage in the Terminal Area," AIAA Modeling & Simulation Technologies Conference, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 1997.
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Lee, K. K., Pawlak, W. S., Sanford, B. D., and Slattery, R. A., "Improved Navigational Technology and Air Traffic Control: A Description of Controller Coordination and Workload," 8th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, April 1995.
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Sanford, B. D., Harwood, K., and Lee, K. K., "Tailoring Advanced Technologies for Air Traffic Control: The Importance of the Development Process," 8th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, April 1995.
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Harwood, K., "Defining Human-Centered System Issues for Verifying and Validating Air Traffic Control Systems," In Wise, J., Hopkin, V. D., Stager, P. (Eds.), Verification and Validation of Complex Integrated Human Machine Systems, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
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Harwood, K., and Sanford, B., "Field assessment as input to the certification of advanced ATC automation," In Wise, J., Garland, D., Hopkin, V. D. (Eds.), Human Factors Certification of Advanced Aviation Technologies, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1993.

Halverson, C. A., Harwood, K., Davis, T. J., and Brinton, C. R., "A Systems Approach to Design: Developing a Usable Automation Tool for Air Traffic Control," IEEE/AIAA Eleventh Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Seattle, WA, Oct. 1992.

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Air/Ground Integration

Schleicher, D. R., Jones, E., Dow, D., and Coppenbarger, R. A., "Improved Lateral Trajectory Prediction through En Route Air-Ground Data Exchange," AIAA Aircraft Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1-3 Oct. 2002.
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Coppenbarger, R. A., Kanning, G., and Salcido, R., "Real-Time Data Link of Aircraft Parameters to the Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS)," 4th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar, Santa Fe, NM, 3-7 Dec. 2001.
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Green, S., Bilimoria, K., and Ballin, M. G., "Distributed Air-Ground Traffic Management for En route Flight Operations," Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Special Issue on Distributed Air/Ground Traffic Management, Vol. 9, N. 4, Dec. 2001.

Coppenbarger, R. A., "Climb Trajectory Prediction Enhancement Using Airline Flight-Planning Information" AIAA-99-4147, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Portland, OR, Aug. 1999.
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Williams, D. H., and Green, S. M., "Flight Evaluation of Center-TRACON Automation System Trajectory Prediction Process," NASA TP-1998-208439, July 1998, pp. 88.
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Green, S. M., Goka, T., and Williams, D. H., "Enabling User Preferences Through Data Exchange," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 1997.
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Jardin, M., "4D Air Traffic Control for Non-4D-Equipped Aircraft," AIAAF-97063, American Control Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 4-6 June 1997.

Williams, D. H., Arbuckle, P. D., Green, S. M., and den Braven, W., "Profile Negotiation: An Air/Ground Automation Integration Concept for Managing Arrival Traffic," AGARD Conference Proceedings 538, Machine Intelligence in Air Traffic Management, Berlin, May 1993, pp. 22-1/22-11.

Green, S. M., den Braven, W., and Williams, D.H., "Development and Evaluation of a Profile Negotiation Process for Integrating Aircraft and Air Traffic Control Automation," NASA TM-4360, RTCA 1991 Annual Assembly Meeting and Technical Symposium, April 1993.

Williams, D. H., and Green, S. M., "Piloted Simulation of an Air-Ground Profile Negotiation Process in a Time-Based Air Traffic Control Environment," NASA TM-107748, 1993.

den Braven, W., "Design and Evaluation of an Advanced Data Link System for Air Traffic Control," NASA TM-103899, 1992.

Green, S. M., den Braven, W., and Williams, D. H., "Profile Negotiation: A Concept for Integrating Airborne and Ground-Based Automation for Managing Arrival Traffic," Proceedings of the 1991 RTCA Technical Symposium, Washington, DC, 18-20 Nov. 1991.

Williams, D. H., and Green, S. M., "Airborne Four-Dimensional Flight Management in a Time-Based Air Traffic Control Environment," NASA TM-4249, 1991.

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Analysis

Gong, C., and McNally, D., "A Methodology for Automated Trajectory Prediction Analysis," AIAA-2004-4788, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Providence, RI, 16-19 Aug. 2004.
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Mueller, E. R., and Chatterji, G. B., "Analysis of Aircraft Arrival and Departure Delay Characteristics," AIAA Aircraft Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1-3 Oct. 2002.
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Heere, K. R., and Zelenka, R. E., "A Comparison of Center/TRACON Automation System and Airline Time of Arrival Predictions," NASA TM-2000-209584, Feb. 2000, pp. 26.
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Ballin, M. G., and Erzberger, H., "Benefits Analysis of Terminal-Area Air traffic Automation at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport," AIAA-96-3723, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, 29-31 July 1996.

Ballin, M. G. and Erzberger, H., "An Analysis of Landing Rates and Separations at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport," NASA TM-110397, July 1996.
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den Braven, W., "Analysis of Aircraft/Air Traffic Control Performance," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, 7-10 Aug. 1995.

Neuman, F., Erzberger, H., and Schueller, M. S., "CTAS Data Analysis Program," NASA TM-108842, Oct. 1994.

den Braven, W., and van den Bos, J. C., "Simulation of Fully Automated Air Traffic Control Concepts," AGARD Conference Proceedings 538, Machine Intelligence in Air Traffic Management, Berlin, Germany, 11-14 May 1993, pp. 12-1/12-16.

Neuman, F., and Erzberger, H., "Analysis of Delay Reducing and Fuel Saving Sequencing and Spacing Algorithms for Arrival Traffic," NASA TM-103880, 1991.
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Neuman, F., and Erzberger, H., "Analysis of Sequencing and Scheduling Methods for Arrival Traffic," NASA TM-102795.

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Terminal Area Productivity (TAP)

Slattery, R. A., Lee, K. K., and Sanford, B. D., "Effects of ATC Automation on Precision Approaches to Closely Spaced Parallel Runways," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Aug. 1995.

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Other

Vivona, R. A., Cate, K. T., and Green, S. M., "Abstraction Techniques for Capturing and Comparing Trajectory Predictor Capabilities and Requirements," American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, HI, 18-21 Aug. 2008.
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Garcia-Chico, J. L., Vivona, R. A., and Cate, K. T., "Characterizing Intent Maneuvers from Operational Data - A Step towards Trajectory Uncertainty Estimation," American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, HI, 18-21 Aug. 2008.
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Reisman, R. J., and Brown, D. M., "Design of Augmented Reality Tools for Air Traffic Control Towers," AIAA-2006-7713, AIAA Aviation Technology, Itegration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Wichita, KS, 25-27 Sep. 2006.
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Jardin, M., "Air Traffic Conflict Models," AIAA-2004-6393, AIAA 4th Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Forum, Chicago, IL, 20-22 Sep. 2004.
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Miraflor, R. M. C., "Integrating a Noise Modeling Capability with Simulation Environments," AIAA Aircraft Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1-3 Oct. 2002.
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Atkins, S., and Hansman, Jr., R. J., "Calculating Dependent Surveillance Update Rates by Modelling the Time-Dependence of Information Value," AIAA-99-4145, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Portland, OR, Aug. 1999.
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Slattery, R., and Zhao, Y., "Trajectory Synthesis for Air Traffic Automation," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 20, No. 2, March/April 1997, pp. 232-238.
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Zhao, Y, and Slattery, R. A., "Capture Conditions for Merging Trajectory Segments to Model Realistic Aircraft Descents," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 19, No. 2, March/April 1996, pp. 453-460.

Jardin, M. R., and Erzberger, H., "Atmospheric Data Acquisition and Interpolation for Enhanced Trajectory-Prediction Accuracy in the Center-TRACON Automation System," AIAA-96-0271, 34th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, 15-18 Jan. 1996.

Weske, R. A., and Danek, G. L., "Pseudo Aircraft Systems: A Multi-Aircraft Simulation System for Air Traffic Control Research," AIAA Flight Simulation Technologies Conference, Monterey, CA, Aug. 1993.

Bergeron, H., and Heinrichs, H., "A Training Approach for Highly Automated ATC Systems," 7th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH, 26-29 April 1993.

Tobias, L., Erzberger, H., Lee, H. Q., and O'Brien, P. J., "Mixing 4D Equipped and Unequipped Aircraft in the Terminal Area," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 8, No. 3, May-June 1985.

Erzberger, H. "Optimum Climb and Descent Trajectories for Airline Missions," Applications of Optimal Control in Aerospace, AGARDograph, 1980.

Erzberger, H., and Lee, H. Q., "Constrained Optimum Trajectories with Specified Range," Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1980, pp. 78-85.

Erzbeger, H., and McLean, J. D., "Fuel Conservative Guidance System for Powered Lift Aircraft," AIAA-79-1709, AIAA Guidance and Control Conference, Boulder, CO, Aug. 1979.

Erzberger, H., and Lee, H. Q., "Characteristics of Constrained Optimum Trajectories with Specified Range," NASA TM-78519, 1978.

Menga, G., and Erzberger, H., "Time Controlled Descent Guidance in Uncertain Winds," Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 1978.

Erzberger, H., McLean, J., and Barman, J., "Fixed Range Optimum Trajectories for Short Haul Aircraft," NASA TN-D-8115, Dec. 1975.

Erzberger, H., Barman, J. F., and McLean, J., "Optimum Flight Profiles for Short Haul Missions," AIAA-75-1124, AIAA Guidance and Control Conference, Boston, MA, Aug. 1975.

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