Using machine learning to analyze air traffic management actions: Ground delay program case study

Yulin Liu, Yi Liu, Mark Hansen, Alexey Pozdnukhov and Danqing Zhang

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2019, vol. 131, issue C, 80-95

Abstract: We model the impact of weather and arrival demand on ground delay program (GDP) incidence. We use Support Vector Machine (SVM) to analyze how regional convective weather affects GDP incidence and find the impact depends on both distance and direction of convective activity from the airport. We then train and compare the performance of logistic regression (LR) and random forest (RF) in predicting GDP incidence using an SVM-generated regional weather variable, local weather and arrival demand. Generally, RF outperforms LR. Convective weather is the most important factor in predicting GDP incidence at Atlanta International Airport (ATL), while arrival demand has greater impact for the other airports studied. We also examined model transferability across different airports. Lastly, we build GDP duration prediction models to enable a user to assess how long a GDP is likely to continue, if it is in effect in a given hour.

Keywords: Ground delay program; Convective weather; Support vector machine; Logistic regression; Random forest; Regularized linear models; Feature importance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2019.09.012

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