Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Sheridan, T. B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Human supervisory control of aircraft, rail and highway vehicles

Thomas B. Sheridan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. E-mail: Sheridan{at}mit.edu

This paper reviews recent trends in control of aircraft, rail and highway vehicles toward supervisory control. Supervisory control means the human operator intermittently specifies goals, constraints and procedural information to a computer, monitors synoptic displays of state information, and tasks the computer to execute the instructions automatically. This trend has been driven by new sensor, communication and computer technology. Full automation of these transport systems is currently unacceptable, not only for reasons of safety, but also because radical departure from present systems is technologically and economically infeasible, in addition to which the public does not like radical change. Commercial and military aircraft are easily the most advanced of the three transportation modes. Rail and highway systems are currently undergoing rapid transformation, nevertheless impeded by economic and other societal constraints. Examples of new technological developments are given for each mode. Common problems are then described. Finally, some methodological elements are mentioned which are essential to resolving these problems.

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Vol. 21, No. 4-5, 191-201 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/014233129902100407
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?