System and method for characterizing traffic behavior at an airport

• US 7,706,968 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2006
• Issued: 04/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OAG Aviation Worldwide LLC
• Original Assignee: Flightview Incorporated
• Inventors: Flynn, Mary, Steinberg, James, Flynn, Lorraine
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu; Yonel
• Application Number:
  US11/432,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20070005232A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 701120-122, 701/3, 701/117, 701/14, 342/63, 340/945, 340/949, 340/951, 340/958
• US Class Current: 701/120
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 23/00 Combined instruments indicating more than one navigational value, e.g. for aircraft; Combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement, e.g. distance, speed or acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/047 Optimisation of routes or paths, e.g. travelling salesman problem
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0026 located on the ground
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0043 Traffic management of multiple aircrafts from the ground G08G5/003 takes precedence; data processing specially designed for resource management, e.g. scheduling or allocating time, human or machine resources G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0082 for monitoring traffic from a ground station radar or analogous systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91

Abstract

A method is provided for characterizing traffic behavior at an airport. Scheduled and real-time flight information for the airport is obtained and used to determine, over a selected interval of time, flight delay information. The flight delay information is used to characterize an extent of delay for the airport. Various embodiments characterize traffic behavior at a plurality of distinct airports and traffic behavior of a selected airline, both at an airport and at distinct airports.

Claims

1. A computer program product to be executed by a computer, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon, the computer readable program code comprising:

program code for correlating, with each of a series of at least three quantized weather conditions, the capacity of an airport to support departing flights; and

program code for calculating the capacity of an airport to support departing flights based on the correlation.

2. A computer program product according to claim 1 containing program code for correlating, with each of a series of at least four quantized weather conditions, the capacity of an airport to support departing flights.

3. A computer program product to be executed by a computer, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon, the computer readable program code comprising:

program code for correlating, with each of a series of at least three quantized weather conditions, the capacity of an airport to support arriving flights.

4. A computer program product according to claim 3 containing program code for correlating, with each of a series of at least four quantized weather conditions, the capacity of an airport to support arriving flights.