26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-8.2.2

PREDICTION OF WEATHER-RELATED DELAYS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES

B. Sridhar, D. Kulkarni
NASA, USA

Keywords: National airspace metrics, Traffic flow management, Weather related delays, Delay estimation, Regression models

The continuous growth in the demand for air transportation results in an imbalance between airspace capacity and traffic demand. The airspace capacity of a region is severely limited by convective weather and results in delays. Results are presented from an initial study developing models of center level delays and weather.

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