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    This document discusses using a neural network approach to analyze flight data from the FLTWinds system. It summarizes the following: 1) FLTWinds collects aviation weather and flight data including flight tracking, weather products, and alerts. About 3GB of data is collected monthly. 2) Data preprocessing was done including removing unnecessary attributes, choosing major airport hubs, and cleaning data. 26 attributes were selected for analysis. 3) Neural networks were built to classify on-time versus late flights for five major US airports. Classification accuracy ranged from 56.57% to 99.53% depending on the airport. 4) Future work proposed examining additional attributes, aircraft performance differences, regression models for

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    This document discusses using a neural network approach to analyze flight data from the FLTWinds system. It summarizes the following: 1) FLTWinds collects aviation weather and flight data including flight tracking, weather products, and alerts. About 3GB of data is collected monthly. 2) Data preprocessing was done including removing unnecessary attributes, choosing major airport hubs, and cleaning data. 26 attributes were selected for analysis. 3) Neural networks were built to classify on-time versus late flights for five major US airports. Classification accuracy ranged from 56.57% to 99.53% depending on the airport. 4) Future work proposed examining additional attributes, aircraft performance differences, regression models for

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    This document discusses using a neural network approach to analyze flight data from the FLTWinds system. It summarizes the following: 1) FLTWinds collects aviation weather and flight data including flight tracking, weather products, and alerts. About 3GB of data is collected monthly. 2) Data preprocessing was done including removing unnecessary attributes, choosing major airport hubs, and cleaning data. 26 attributes were selected for analysis. 3) Neural networks were built to classify on-time versus late flights for five major US airports. Classification accuracy ranged from 56.57% to 99.53% depending on the airport. 4) Future work proposed examining additional attributes, aircraft performance differences, regression models for

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    Analysis of FLTWinds Data using a Neural Network

    Based Approach

    Haimonti Dutta
    CIS Department ,Temple University
    FLTWinds - The Flight and Weather Information and Decision Support System

    Features :
    •Aviation weather data management
    •Creation of advanced aviation weather products
    •Weather management and alerting services
    •Flight tracking and display services
    •Flight following and alerting services
    •Sophisticated mapping and display tools
    •User interface that combines both flight and weather information on
    a common graphical display
     
    Collection of the Data

    A View of the Database


    Schema
    Attribute name Attribute Definition

    A_IN Actual Gate in time

    A_IN_SRC Source of time stored in A_IN


    column

    A_OFF Actual wheels off time

    A_ON Actual wheels on time

    A_ON_SRC Source of time stored in


    The tables used in the Database schema are : A_ON column
    • Flight
    • Plan
    • Plan_Point
    • Tracking
    • Airline

    About 3 GB of data is collected per month.


    Steps in Data Preprocessing

    • Attributes required to build the database


    • Removal of uninteresting attributes like Route_Date, Plan-Number, Plan_Time etc
    • Removal of attributes for which data was not available. For e.g: SUA_ALERT, WX_ALERT,
    FUEL_REMAINING.

    Some of the major attributes chosen include


    FLEET_ID, DIVERT_TIME, PLAN_DISTANCE, ALERTS, ARRIVAL_DELTA,
    DEPARTURE_DELTA, HOLD_TIME, MAX_OFF_RTE, DISTANCE_DELTA etc.
    In all, 26 attributes were chosen for the final data processing.

    • Chosing airport hubs for data analysis(A data reduction step)


    After the attributes were chosen, the next step was to choose the 5 major airport hubs in USA
    Including the Boston Logan Intnl. Airport(BOS), Baltimore Washington Intnl Airport(BWI),
    Chicago O’Hara Intnl Airport(ORD), Dallas-Fortworth Intnl airport(DFW), Denver Intnl airport
    (DEN).(Based on ranking of busy airports- http://airtravel.about.com/library/news/airports/blarptnewsRankings.htm)
    Data was collected for all aeroplanes which were coming
    flying into these hubs on the
    Specified dates.

    • Data Cleaning
    • In order to feed the data into the Neural Network, programs were written to decode the
    date, interpreting the binary attributes, and eliminating invalid values.
    Data Sets

    Number of records analysed -

    Airport Id Number of records


    BOS 1447
    BWI 545
    DEN 7306
    DFW 1552
    ORD 4791

    For each of these airport hubs, a neural network classifier was built for identification of two classes.
    • Flights on-time
    • Flights not on-time (early/late).
    Distributions of Arrival times of Flights at the airport hubs chosen

    BOSTON CHICAGO

    DENVER BALTIMORE- WASHINGTON


    Results

    Classifier Accuracy
    Airport Accuracy
    BOS 99.53
    ORD 88.12
    DEN 92.57
    BWI 69.0
    DFW 56.57

    Plot of the Accuracy


    Experiments to be done

    According to domain experts, the displacement from the actual route of a flight is an important
    Attribute that needs to be analyzed. Initial examination reveals the following patterns for the
    max_of_rte attribute.
    Distribution for max_of_rte
    BOSTON CHICAGO

    DENVER BALTIMORE - WASHINGTON


    Future Work

    • Examination of other attributes including departure_delta,


    alerts, diversion_alert, hold_alert
    • Examination of the performance of air bus and Boeing aircraft
    • Development of a linear regression model for estimation of
    arrival times of aricrafts
    • Patterns in delay of flights.

    References :
    • Neural Networks, A comprehensive foundation by Simon Haykin
    • FltWinds software in use at Lockheed Martin corporation
    • Domain experts including Dr. WolfGang, Dr. Biju Kalathil, Dr.
    John Carlsen, Rusty Bell.
    Questions ????

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