Part I Fundamentals & Preconditions -- Introduction and Overview -- Visual Features Used by Airport Tower Controllers: Some Implications for the Design of Remote or Virtual Towers -- Detection and Recognition for Remote Tower Operations -- Part II Remote Tower Simulation Environment and Remote Tower Center -- Remote Tower Simulation Environment -- Assessing Operational Validity of Remote Tower Control in High Fidelity Simulation -- Video Frame‐Rate Requirements from Visual Discrimination of Deceleration During Simulated Aircraft Landing -- Planning remote multi‐airport control – controller‐friendly assistance -- Part III RTO Engineering and Field Testing -- Augmented Vision Videopanorama Experimental System with Augmented Vision Videopanorama -- Remote Tower Prototype System and Automation Perspectives -- Which metrics provide the insight needed? A selection of remote tower evaluation metrics to support a remote tower operation concept validation -- Model-based Analysis of Two‐Alternative Decision Errors in a Videopanorama‐based Remote Tower Work Position -- Part IV Alternative Approaches and Perspectives -- The Advanced Remote Tower System and its Validation -- Remote Tower Research in the United States.

The interdisciplinary research and development work carried out in the last ten years which is presented in this book aimed at replacing the conventional airport control tower by a new “remote tower operation” work environment (RTO) which should enhance work efficiency and safety and reduce costs. This revolutionary human–system interface allows for remote aerodrome traffic control without a physical tower building and enables the establishment of remote airport traffic control centers (RTC) of which each may serve several airports from a central location.