In this demonstration, we report on the development of a low fidelity air traffic control simulator that allows researchers to investigate human factors issues related to various NextGen concepts, like flow corridors, continuous descent arrivals, and sky-based separation. NextSim also allows the researcher to collect a number of performance, workload, and situation awareness measures.
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