Scheduled arriving aircraft demand may exceed airport arrival capacity when there is abnormal weather at an airport. In such situations, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) institutes ground-delay programs (GDP) to delay flights before they depart from their originating airports. Efficient GDP planning depends on the accuracy of prediction of airport capacity and demand in the presence of uncertainties in weather forecast. This paper presents a study of the impact of dynamic airport surface weather on GDPs. Using the National Traffic Management Log, effect of weather conditions on the characteristics of GDP events at selected busy airports is investigated. Two machine learning methods are used to generate models that map the airport operational conditions and weather information to issued GDP parameters and results of validation tests are described.
Modeling Weather Impact on Ground Delay Programs
Sae Int. J. Aerosp
Aerospace Technology Conference and Exposition ; 2011
Sae International Journal of Aerospace ; 4 , 2 ; 1207-1215
2011-10-18
9 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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