{"title":"[Copyright notice]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/aida-at48540.2020.9049164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/aida-at48540.2020.9049164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115599773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of Machine Learning Techniques to Aviation Operations: Promises and Challenges","authors":"B. Sridhar","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049205","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing interest in applying methods based on Machine Learning Techniques (MLT) to problems in aviation operations. The current interest is based on developments in Cloud Computing, the availability of open software and the success of MLT in automation, consumer behavior and finance involving large databases. This paper reviews the current-state-of-the art in applying MLT to aviation operations, its promises and challenges. Historically aviation operations have been analyzed using physics-based models and provide information for making operational decisions. This paper describes issues to be addressed in applying either model-driven or data-driven methods. Aviation operations involving many decision makers, multiple objectives, poor or unavailable physics-based models and a rich historical database are prime candidates for analysis using data-driven methods. Currently, the application of MLT to aviation operations falls into three categories: (a) based on the lack of a physics-based model, MLT are the favored approach, (b) MLT perform slightly better than methods using physics-based models and (c) comparison of different MLT to the same application. As always, the best approach depends on the task, the physical understanding of the problem and the quality and quantity of the available data.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124877293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Max Z. Li, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yanjun Wang, H. Balakrishnan
{"title":"Outlier Analysis of Airport Delay Distributions in US and China","authors":"Max Z. Li, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yanjun Wang, H. Balakrishnan","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049208","url":null,"abstract":"Outlier detection is a key component of several machine learning approaches. However, many existing techniques, especially for multi-dimensional signals, are not interpretable and do not explain why a specific classification was assigned to a particular data point. Another limitation is that most methods only consider the magnitude or intensity of the signal, and not its spatial distribution. We present a spectral approach to identify outliers based on the spatial distribution of a signal across the nodes of a graph without any explicit assumptions on the underlying probability distribution of the signal. By applying these techniques to airport delays, we not only identify outliers in the spatial distribution of delays, but also gain insights into the delay dynamics. Specifically, we compare spatial delay distributions in the US and China during the period 2012–17, and identify several interesting characteristics pertaining to critical airports for outlier detection. We characterize typical variabilities in the delay distributions, and the frequency of occurrence of outliers. Our results highlight the differences between the operational dynamics of the US and Chinese air transportation systems, and contribute to performance benchmarking between different airspace systems.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128088096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-Time Prediction of Runway Occupancy Buffers","authors":"Lu Dai, M. Hansen","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049165","url":null,"abstract":"To improve runway safety and efficiency, real-time prediction of the time separation between successive flights using the same runway would be valuable. In this paper, we develop methods for such predictions, focusing on the time difference between when the prior aircraft exits the runway and the next arriving aircraft crosses the runway threshold, a metric we term runway occupancy buffer. We use two modeling frameworks: a two-stage modeling framework that predicts runway occupancy buffer through prediction of leading aircraft's runway occupancy time and trailing aircraft's required time till arrival; and an integrated modeling framework which directly predicts runway occupancy buffer. Machine learning techniques, linear regression and random forest regression, are applied to train the model. Seven models are investigated and compared at different distances from the runway threshold. Random forest regression outperforms other models, and it suggests that separation is the most important factor in predicting the runway occupancy buffer.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123645603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Objective Gate Assignment Problem for an Airport","authors":"Nang Laik Ma","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049211","url":null,"abstract":"Airport Gate Assignment (AGA) for arriving aircraft is an important aspect of airport operations that has profound impact on the other downstream processes in the airport. Aircraft is often assigned a gate based on their scheduled arrival time which ensures smooth ground operations if everything runs according to plan. Unfortunately, last minute re-assignments happen very frequently to account for real-time developments on the ground. In this paper, a multi-objective gate assignment model has been developed using heuristic method. The model aims to reduce passengers walking distance, balance the human traffic across the two piers, even out the utilisation rates of the gates and maintain an empty gate or space between occupied gates. The gate assigned by the developed model, makes the terminal's down-stream operations more susceptible to uncertainty and disruptive changes. The model developed is also flexible to allow users to set the priorities of the weight, promoting it as a human-centric decision making system and making it suitable for daily operation.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124638934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Airspace Capacity Overload Identification Using Collision Risk Patterns","authors":"Chunyao Ma, Qing Cai, S. Alam, V. Duong","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049182","url":null,"abstract":"The ever increasing demand for air travel may induce en-route airspace capacity overload which endangers flight safety and elicit air traffic congestion. Knowledge of airspace capacity overload is important for air traffic flow management and flight planning to mitigate air traffic congestion without compromising airspace safety level. Since the primary task of air traffic controllers is to manage traffic flow within the constraints imposed by safety requirements, i.e., to warrant the collision risk at a low level, in this paper, we use the aircraft mid-air collision risk for a given airspace as the indicator of airspace capacity overload. With given air traffic data and airspace configurations, the collision risk distributions inside an airspace is determined through collision risk modelling. Based on the density and intensity of collision risk, the collision risk distributions are converted into heatmaps and collision risk patterns are further recognized from the heatmaps using image processing technique. Three major states of airspace workload can be identified from theses patterns: normal state, transition state and overload state. For new traffic data during a given time period, by matching its collision risk distribution to the closest collision risk pattern, we are able to identify whether the airspace is overloaded or not. The experimental study in an en-route sector of the Singapore airspace has manifested the ability of the proposed method in collision risk pattern recognition and capacity overload identification.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129346719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Schultz, X. Olive, J. Rosenow, H. Fricke, S. Alam
{"title":"Analysis of airport ground operations based on ADS-B data","authors":"M. Schultz, X. Olive, J. Rosenow, H. Fricke, S. Alam","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049212","url":null,"abstract":"Publicly available aircraft airborne and ground movement data pave the way to new advanced analyses of complex behaviours and collaborative decision making tools for the optimisation of airport operations. Such data-driven approaches will allow cost efficient implementations, which are a key enabler for the efficient integration of small/medium sized airports into the air transportation network. We present an operational milestone concept based on Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) messages emitted by approaching and departing aircraft. Since aircraft have to be equipped with a compliant transponder from 2020, airports only need cheap receivers to observe operations at the runway/taxiway system and on the apron (including parking positions). These observations will allow for a systematic monitoring (using operational milestones) and predictive analytics to provide estimated values for future system states. In this contribution, we present the core elements of an innovative framework, which may bring new insights for airport operations optimisation, with a particular focus on small and medium ones. We process here aircraft movements on the ground and around Zurich airport and present four examples of applications, which will enable prediction-based decision assistance tools for efficient airport operations.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132402516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Map-Matching Algorithm for Ground Movement Trajectory Representation using A-SMGCS Data","authors":"Thanh-Nam Tran, Due-Thinh Pham, S. Alam","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049181","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing availability of air traffic data has opened new opportunities for better understanding of Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. At Airport-Air side, A-SMGCS (Ad-vanced Surface Movement Guidance & Control System) data may provide useful insights to improve efficiency and safety of airport operations by understanding traffic patterns, taxiway usage, ground speed profiles and any anomaly behaviour. However, A-SMGCS data comes from the fusion of several sensors such as MLAT, ADS-B and SMR. This leads to high and variable noise, missing data values, and temporal and spatial misalignment. In this study, we proposed a new and simplified representation of ground movement trajectories using a map-matching algorithm applied on A-SMGCS data. The proposed approach not only overcomes above mentioned issues of data, but also takes into consideration airport specific operational constraints. The algorithm shows a good matching results with mean percentage error of approximate 8.13%. The matching trajectories and sequences of nodes in resulting graph, supports a variety of analysis about airport operations. To show the effectiveness of proposed approach, we performed some analysis such as traffic patterns, taxi-way usages, speed profiling and anomaly detection, using one month of A-SMGCS data at Singapore Changi Airport.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128271608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuwei Chen, Yanjun Wang, Minghua Hu, Ying Zhou, D. Delahaye, Siyuan Lin
{"title":"Community Detection of Chinese Airport Delay Correlation Network","authors":"Shuwei Chen, Yanjun Wang, Minghua Hu, Ying Zhou, D. Delahaye, Siyuan Lin","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049192","url":null,"abstract":"Network science has been a promising tool for characterizing and understanding complex systems. A challenging problem in network science is to uncover the community structure of the network. Community structure generally presents the partition of the nodes in the network into several groups based on various structural properties or dynamic behavior. In this paper, we analyze the community structure of Chinese airport network based on Stochastic Block Models (SBM). Different from exisiting studies, the Chinese Airport Delay Correlation Network (CADCN) is constructed with airports as nodes and the correlations between hourly delay time series of airport pairs as edges. To analyze the temporal patterns of community structures, we employ spectral clustering method and classify Chinese airports into 6 different communities. Airports within each community have closer relationships to each other on the delay propagation. A similar investigation to the traditional Chinese airport network (CAN) is carried out based on SBM as well. By comparing the results of two networks, we find that the CADCN has the advantage in revealing the implicit delay correlation than the directed flights connection between airports. Our findings have potential meanings to understand the spread of flight delays and to develop relevant management and control strategies.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130252184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaime Rubio-Hervas, Abhishek Gupta, Y. Ong, M. Reyhanoglu
{"title":"Pay-Per-Flight Dynamic Pricing of UAV Operations","authors":"Jaime Rubio-Hervas, Abhishek Gupta, Y. Ong, M. Reyhanoglu","doi":"10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AIDA-AT48540.2020.9049171","url":null,"abstract":"Insuring unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a relatively new concept, where not much data is available yet. We propose the combination of available data from different sources, other than past accident rates, to stochastically model the operational environment by using Gaussian process-based function approximations. A data-driven risk measure is then derived through such stochastic formulation accounting for both aleatoric uncertainties of the considered environmental factors as well as epistemic uncertainties originating from the geographical sparsity of data collection sources. The risk measure is obtained in a path-integral form which represents the operational risk associated with a defined operation in partially unknown environments. A novel pay-per-flight dynamic pricing scheme is derived from such risk measure.","PeriodicalId":106277,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122314478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}