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Currently, flight delays are common and they propagate from an originating flight to connecting flights, leading to large disruptions in the overall schedule. These disruptions cause massive economic losses, affect airlines' reputations,…

Under increasing economic and environmental pressure, airlines are constantly seeking new technologies and optimizing flight operations to reduce fuel consumption. However, the current practice on fuel loading, which has a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xinting Zhu , Lishuai Li

This study explores the approaches used by airlines in setting flight times. It highlights the need to balance operational and strategic factors, such as optimizing the use of resources - including aircraft, crew, and fuel - and managing…

General Economics · Economics 2024-02-21 Ana B. R. Eufrásio , Alessandro V. M. Oliveira

Traffic prediction plays an essential role in intelligent transportation system. Accurate traffic prediction can assist route planing, guide vehicle dispatching, and mitigate traffic congestion. This problem is challenging due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Xueyan Yin , Genze Wu , Jinze Wei , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

En-route congestion causes delays in air traffic networks and will become more prominent as air traffic demand will continue to increase yet airspace volume cannot grow. However, most existing studies on flight delay modeling do not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-30 Yu Lin , Lishuai Li , Pan Ren , Yanjun Wang , W. Y. Szeto

The generation of synthetic data is receiving increasing attention from the scientific community, thanks to its ability to solve problems like data scarcity and privacy, and is starting to find applications in air transport. We here tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Pau Esteve , Massimiliano Zanin

To model and forecast flight delays accurately, it is crucial to harness various vehicle trajectory and contextual sensor data on airport tarmac areas. These heterogeneous sensor data, if modelled correctly, can be used to generate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Wei Shao , Arian Prabowo , Sichen Zhao , Piotr Koniusz , Flora D. Salim

Predicting if passengers in a connecting flight will lose their connection is paramount for airline profitability. We present novel machine learning-based decision support models for the different stages of connection flight management,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Marta Guimaraes , Claudia Soares , Rodrigo Ventura

Accurate flight delay prediction is crucial for the secure and effective operation of the air traffic system. Recent advances in modeling inter-airport relationships present a promising approach for investigating flight delay prediction…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Qihui Zhu , Shenwen Chen , Tong Guo , Yisheng Lv , Wenbo Du

Flight delay prediction has become a key focus in air traffic management (ATM), as delays reflect inefficiencies in the system. This paper proposes LLM4Delay, a large language model (LLM)-based framework for predicting flight delays from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Thaweerath Phisannupawong , Joshua Julian Damanik , Han-Lim Choi

Accurately forecasting flight departure delays is essential for improving operational efficiency and mitigating the cascading disruptions that propagate through tightly coupled aircraft rotations. Traditional machine learning approaches…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Jianyang Zhou

Airport performance prediction with a reasonable look-ahead time is a challenging task and has been attempted by various prior research. Traffic, demand, weather, and traffic management actions are all critical inputs to any prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Liya Wang , Alex Tien , Jason Chou

Technologically driven transport systems are characterized by a networked structure connecting operation centers and by a dynamics ruled by pre-established schedules. Schedules impose serious constraints on the timing of the operations,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-30 Pablo Fleurquin , Jose J. Ramasco , Victor M. Eguiluz

With the rapid development of civil aviation and the significant improvement of people's living standards, taking an air plane has become a common and efficient way of travel. However, due to the flight characteris-tics of the aircraft and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Haoxing Liu , Fangzhou Shen , Haoshen Qin and , Fanru Gao

Traffic prediction plays a vital role in efficient planning and usage of network resources in wireless networks. While traffic prediction in wired networks is an established field, there is a lack of research on the analysis of traffic in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Amin Azari , Panagiotis Papapetrou , Stojan Denic , Gunnar Peters

The current Air Traffic Management (ATM) system worldwide has reached its limits in terms of predictability, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Different initiatives worldwide propose trajectory-oriented transformations that require high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Alevizos Bastas , Theocharis Kravaris , George A. Vouros

Reliable platforms for data collation during airline schedule operations have significantly increased the quality and quantity of available information for effectively managing airline schedule disruptions. To that effect, this paper…

Applications · Statistics 2021-08-17 Kolawole Ogunsina , Ilias Bilionis , Daniel DeLaurentis

Flight delay happens every day in airports all over the world. However, systemic investigation in large scales remains a challenge. We collect primary data of domestic departure records from Bureau of Transportation Statistics of United…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Yan-Jun Wang , Ya-Kun Cao , Chen-Ping Zhu , Fan Wu , Ming-Hua Hu , Baruch Barzel , H. E. Stanley

Accurate multi-step flight trajectory prediction plays an important role in Air Traffic Control, which can ensure the safety of air transportation. Two main issues limit the flight trajectory prediction performance of existing works. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Lan Wu , Xuebin Wang , Ruijuan Chu , Guangyi Liu , Jing Zhang , Linyu Wang

The cost of delays was estimated as 33 billion US dollars only in 2019 for the US National Airspace System, a peak value following a growth trend in past years. Aiming to address this huge inefficiency, we designed and developed a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Ítalo Romani de Oliveira , Samet Ayhan , Michael Biglin , Pablo Costas , Euclides C. Pinto Neto