Unveiling airline preferences for pre-tactical route forecast through machine learning
Paper ID
SIDs-2021-58
Conference
SESAR Innovation Days
Year
2021
Theme
Machine Learning
Project Name
SESAR 2020 ER3 project Engage
Keywords:
airline preferences, ATFCM, Machine learning, pre-tactical trajectory forecast
Authors
Manuel Mateos, Ignacio Martín, Ruben Alcolea, Ricardo Herranz, Oliva Garcia Cantú-Ros and Xavier Prats
DOI
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Project Number
783287
Abstract
In this work we describe a novel approach for the prediction of the flight plan to be sent by airspace users during the pre-tactical phase of Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management (ATFCM). The proposed approach uses machine learning algorithms to extract airspace user preferences in terms of route characteristics, allowing the prediction of new routes not observed during the model training phase. We present the results obtained from applying this approach to short and medium range KLM flights for 52 weeks. Results show that the proposed solution is robust, scalable and capable of reducing the number of wrong predictions provided by the current Network Manager operational solution by 24.3% (4.5% increment on accuracy).