This Volpe division resolves problems across all transportation modes by analyzing the relationship between human behavior and transportation safety and productivity.
Air Traffic Control Quarterly recently published a special issue -- Air Traffic Management 2001, Vol. 10, No. 2 -- focusing on the Fourth USA/Europe Seminar on Air Traffic Management Research and Development, held in December 2001. This issue is comprised of the papers that were voted the "best" in each of the five topical areas: human factors, decision support tools, metrics/weather/environment, optimal traffic flow and safety. A paper by Dr. Kim Cardosi of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division was voted best in the human factors safety area. "Operational Errors in Air Traffic Control Towers in Surface Operations" focuses on the causes and remedies of controller errors in air traffic control towers. Almost 200 papers were submitted for participation in the seminar, 72 of which were accepted.
Dr. Michelle Yeh of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division received the American Psychological Association's (APA) George E. Briggs Dissertation Award for her thesis titled "Attention and Trust Biases in Augmented Reality: Examining the Effects of Image Realism, Interactivity, and the Presentation of Cueing Symbology." Dr. Yeh gave a special address on the dissertation at the annual APA meeting in Chicago, Illinois on August 24, 2002.
