Air Traffic Management: Support for Decision Making Optimisation - Automation (la Gestion du traffic aerien: aide a la decision optimisation automation).

Over the past 25 years, the Guidance and Control Panel and now the Mission Systems Panel of the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have devoted part of their activities to the fascinating field known historically as Air Traffic Control, but covering most facets of Air Traffic Handling. This Workshop, organized as a contribution to the increasing cooperation between the NATO Nations and former Warsaw Pact European countries, was intended to be complementary to the numerous conferences addressing the management of Air Traffic Handling. This volume contains the 19 papers presented at the Conference under the session headings 1 Air Traffic Handling A Large-Scale 2 International, Multidisciplinary and Complex System 3 The Aircraft The Basic Element of Air Traffic 4 Air Traffic Management Fundamentals 5 Examples of Application and 6 Plans and Prospectives. The main Session discussions are also included, and so is a summary of the activities conducted by the Guidance and Control Panel and the Mission Systems Panel in Air Traffic Handling.