Machine learning prediction of airport delays in the US air transportation network

Keshav Ram Chandramouleeswaran, David Krzemien, Kevin Burns, Huy T. Tran

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach for predicting delay states of airports in the United States Air Transportation Network using publicly available data. We illustrate a procedure to predict future airport delays in the network based on temporal, network-level, congestion, and weather-related features from past and current data. As part of this approach, we devised a network delay metric that reduces the dimensionality of network-level delay information into a single variable, thus reducing the feature space and enabling use of classic statistical models. We consider two model types for this paper: a Neural Network model and a Logistic Regression model. We find that prediction performance is most significantly impacted by forecast interval and delay threshold for the presented cases. Similar test accuracies are seen among considered models, with accuracies ranging from 59.5% to 95.8% depending on problem settings. We also test performance of a Neural Network model for the difficult task of predicting airport delay states during extreme events, and find a test accuracy of 69.2% for data from Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference
PublisherAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
ISBN (Print)9781624105562
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event18th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, 2018 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Jun 25 2018Jun 29 2018

Publication series

Name2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

Other

Other18th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period6/25/186/29/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Energy
  • Aerospace Engineering

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