Modeling flight delays and cancellations at the national, regional and airport levels in the United States

Proceedings of the 8th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, ATM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-69

  Sridhar, Banavar ^a   Wang, Yao ^a   Klein, Alexander ^b   Jehlen, Richard ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Air Traffic Analysis Inc ^*  (United States)

^c FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Metrics; National airspace system models; Neural networks; Weather impact

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; BALLOONS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TIME DELAY;

CONVECTIVE WEATHER SEASONS; DELAY; ESTIMATION AND PREDICTIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; METRICS; NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM; WEATHER IMPACT;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84942024348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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