Simulating search comb performance

To improve understanding of how to achieve effective performance in an airport search comb a simulation of the complete search process was constructed. The simulation was developed in two stages: a model of the processes underlying the search comb team task was constructed in the Integrated Performance Modelling Environment (IPME) so that the consistency of the task times and reliability could be assessed in terms of overall system performance; and, a spatially consistent model of the search comb was developed, using parameters based on the IPME model to provide a prototype of a generic Synthetic Environment (SE) that can be used to simulate the operation of an airport Search Comb and provide a visualization of the flow.