Originally published at: FAA Turns to AI To Ease ATC Strain
Agency says new tool could extend planning timelines for traffic management as part of a broader modernization effort.
“A controller will get a notice that they could change one of the airplanes’ flight path slightly, and they can deconflict it an hour and a half, two hours before the conflict even happens,” Duffy said.
fail at DCA, fail at LGA,
AI doing active listening on all frequencies at a given airport along with ADS-B data would work. But ADS-B data transmission would be required. In both of these accidents the vehicles were on different frequencies, and therefore the operators were out of the loop. This is STUPID, but if something was listening in real-time to the chatter on all of the channels, a conflict could be identified. Especially if the system could tell ground and helicopter traffic to halt/hover!
Vehicles are not part of the deconfliction picture; too last minute/last second timeline to be that predictable. The AI solution is based on far-future timeline predictions; human intervention can work based on long-term human experience.
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