Universal bursty behavior in the air transportation system
Abstract
Social activities display bursty behavior characterized by heavy-tailed inter-event time distributions. We examine the bursty behavior of airplanes' arrivals in hub airports. The analysis indicates that the air transportation system universally follows a power-law inter-arrival time distribution with an exponent and an exponential cutoff. Moreover, we investigate the mechanism of this bursty behavior by introducing a simple model to describe it. In addition, we compare the extent of the hub-and-spoke structure and the burstiness of various airline networks in the system. Remarkably, the results suggest that the hub-and-spoke network of the system and the carriers' strategy to facilitate transit are the origins of this universality.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.07862,
title = {Universal bursty behavior in the air transportation system},
author = {Hidetaka Ito and Katsuhiro Nishinari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07862},
year = {2015}
}
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23 pages, 8 figures