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  2. Automatic terminal information service - Wikipedia

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    Automatic terminal information service, or ATIS, is a continuous broadcast of recorded aeronautical information in busier terminal areas.ATIS broadcasts contain essential information, such as current weather information, active runways, available approaches, and any other information required by the pilots, such as important NOTAMs.

  3. Airspace class - Wikipedia

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    A control tower provided procedural clearances for all aircraft inside the zone. Additionally, any aircraft operating within 5 nmi (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) of the zone must obtain a clearance. VFR aircraft arrive and depart using standard arrival and departure routes, while instrument arrival and departure procedures are published for IFR operations.

  4. Tower en route control - Wikipedia

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    In United States aviation, tower en route control (TEC) is a collection of published low-altitude, short-distance IFR routes through large metropolitan areas that require no level of air traffic control higher than approach-control facilities.

  5. Centralized traffic control - Wikipedia

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    Active Union Switch and Signal Co relay based CTC machine at THORN tower in Thorndale, Pennsylvania. Centralized traffic control (CTC) is a form of railway signalling that originated in North America.

  6. Interlocking - Wikipedia

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    The tower and tracks at Deval interlocking, Des Plaines, Illinois, in 1993 In railway signalling, an interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through an arrangement of tracks such as junctions or crossings.

  7. Cooling tower - Wikipedia

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    A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling ... sound level control is a relatively more important issue for package ...

  8. Signalling control - Wikipedia

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    Signalling control was originally exercised via a decentralised network of control points that were known by a variety of names including signal box (International and British), interlocking tower (North America) and signal cabin (some railways e.g., GCR).

  9. Command and control - Wikipedia

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    Command and control (abbr. C2) is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes ...[that] employs human, physical, and information resources to solve problems and accomplish missions" to achieve the goals of an organization or enterprise, according to a 2015 definition by military scientists Marius Vassiliou, David S. Alberts, and Jonathan R. Agre.