KEToward a Resilient and Sustainable Air Transportation System
Hamsa Balakrishnan

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Hamsa Balakrishnan. "KEToward a Resilient and Sustainable Air Transportation System". Talk or presentation, 23, August, 2017.

Abstract
The global air transportation infrastructure has evolved into a large-scale, complex system with 1,400 airlines operating 33 million commercial flights, transporting 3.6 billion passengers and 51.2 million tonnes of freight annually. In this talk, I will describe two aspects of this problem that we have addressed during the course of FORCES. First, I will discuss the problem of flight delays, which cause significant costs to passengers, airlines, and society as a whole. I will describe a new class of networked system models of delay dynamics which reflects both the spatial properties (i.e., inter-airport interactions) and temporal patterns of delay propagation. These models also provide features that can help assess various aspects of system resilience, predict the future evolution of delays, and enable the development of optimal post-disruption recovery strategies. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss the development of a new architecture that enables the statistical modeling of aircraft fuel burn. Airline operations consume 81 billion gallons of fuel each year, resulting in emissions of pollutants that adversely impact climate, air quality, and health. We demonstrate how our proposed data-driven approaches provide more accurate estimates of actual fuel burn, while also reflecting the variability that is observed in real-world operations. By providing more realistic estimates of the fuel burn corresponding to different operational procedures and trajectories, these new models present an important first step toward achieving a more sustainable air transportation system.

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    @presentation{Balakrishnan17_KETowardResilientSustainableAirTransportationSystem,
        author = {Hamsa Balakrishnan},
        title = {KEToward a Resilient and Sustainable Air
                  Transportation System},
        day = {23},
        month = {August},
        year = {2017},
        abstract = {The global air transportation infrastructure has
                  evolved into a large-scale, complex system with
                  1,400 airlines operating 33 million commercial
                  flights, transporting 3.6 billion passengers and
                  51.2 million tonnes of freight annually. In this
                  talk, I will describe two aspects of this problem
                  that we have addressed during the course of
                  FORCES. First, I will discuss the problem of
                  flight delays, which cause significant costs to
                  passengers, airlines, and society as a whole. I
                  will describe a new class of networked system
                  models of delay dynamics which reflects both the
                  spatial properties (i.e., inter-airport
                  interactions) and temporal patterns of delay
                  propagation. These models also provide features
                  that can help assess various aspects of system
                  resilience, predict the future evolution of
                  delays, and enable the development of optimal
                  post-disruption recovery strategies. In the second
                  part of the talk, I will discuss the development
                  of a new architecture that enables the statistical
                  modeling of aircraft fuel burn. Airline operations
                  consume 81 billion gallons of fuel each year,
                  resulting in emissions of pollutants that
                  adversely impact climate, air quality, and health.
                  We demonstrate how our proposed data-driven
                  approaches provide more accurate estimates of
                  actual fuel burn, while also reflecting the
                  variability that is observed in real-world
                  operations. By providing more realistic estimates
                  of the fuel burn corresponding to different
                  operational procedures and trajectories, these new
                  models present an important first step toward
                  achieving a more sustainable air transportation
                  system.},
        URL = {http://cps-forces.org/pubs/267.html}
    }
    

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