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Air Traffic Controller Assessment of the Free Route Airspace Implementation within Zagreb Area Control Centre

Current tools in air traffic control are not sufficient to support the advanced conflict detection that has arisen from implementation of free route airspace. Free route airspace has proven to be more efficient for airline companies, but the effects on air traffic controllers have not yet been tested in full. It is attempted to solve that problem in this paper and to see what kind of impact free route airspace has on the air traffic controllers. It is concluded that with the implementation of specific free route airspace (SEAFRA), traffic complexity is increased and that controllers have a hard time detecting conflict in advance since there are no more old “hotspots” to concentrate on. Hence, the whole airspace is considered as a hotspot. At the end of the paper, several steps have been proposed for future work and for solving some of the issues that the air traffic controllers have emphasized.

Free route airspace ; air traffic controller ; traffic complexity ; conflict detection ; workload ;

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