Stochastic Delay Cost Functions to Estimate Delay Propagation Under Uncertainty

Abstract

This project has received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) within the LUFO-V project OPsTIMAL under grant agreement No 20X1711M. Further funding was received from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 783287 (Engage KTN). The opinions expressed herein reflect the authors' views only. Under no circumstances shall the SESAR Joint Undertaking be responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

Predictive classification and understanding of weather impact on airport performance through machine learning

“…Punctuality is determined as the proportion of flight delays with less than 15 min, widely accepted as a performance indicator in aviation. To avoid delays during periods of high traffic demand (peak times), airlines apply buffering strategies, which improve punctuality and minimizes tactical delay costs (Eurocontrol, 2020;Cook et al, 2016;Evler et al, 2020). The definition of delay varies between stakeholders and several terms have been established, such as acceptable delay, network delay, on-time performance, reactionary delays, delays per flight (gate-to-gate view), arrival delays, additional time in the arrival sequencing and metering area, departure delays, surface taxiing delays, and passenger delay minutes (cf.…”