TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing strategic flight schedules at an airport using machine learning-based flight delay and cancellation predictions
AU - Lambelho, Miguel
AU - Mitici, Mihaela
AU - Pickup, Simon
AU - Marsden, Alan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - To mitigate air traffic demand-capacity imbalances, large European airports implement strategic flight schedules, where flights are assigned arrival/departure slots several months prior to execution. We propose a generic assessment of such strategic schedules using predictions about arrival/departure flight delays and cancellations. We demonstrate our approach for strategic flight schedules in the period 2013–2018 at London Heathrow Airport. Together with the development of dedicated strategic flight schedule optimization models, our proposed approach supports an integrated strategic flight schedule assessment, where schedules are evaluated with respect to flight delays and cancellations.
AB - To mitigate air traffic demand-capacity imbalances, large European airports implement strategic flight schedules, where flights are assigned arrival/departure slots several months prior to execution. We propose a generic assessment of such strategic schedules using predictions about arrival/departure flight delays and cancellations. We demonstrate our approach for strategic flight schedules in the period 2013–2018 at London Heathrow Airport. Together with the development of dedicated strategic flight schedule optimization models, our proposed approach supports an integrated strategic flight schedule assessment, where schedules are evaluated with respect to flight delays and cancellations.
KW - Cancellation prediction
KW - Delay prediction
KW - Machine learning
KW - Schedule ranking
KW - strategic flight schedule
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074330812&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2019.101737
DO - 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2019.101737
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074330812
SN - 0969-6997
VL - 82
JO - Journal of Air Transport Management
JF - Journal of Air Transport Management
M1 - 101737
ER -