Journal of Civil Aviation University of China ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 17-26.

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A data-driven peak-valley configuration method of flight slot coordination
parameter at busy airport

WANG Yilong1,2 , YANG Lei 1,2 , WANG Mengfei 1,2 , ZHAO Zheng1,2
  

  1. 1. College of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Air Traffic Management System, Nanjing 211106, China
  • Received:2024-03-27 Revised:2024-08-15 Online:2025-04-08 Published:2025-04-08
  • Supported by:
    江苏省自然科学基金面上项目(BK20231447),南京航空航天大学研究生科研与实践创新计划项目(xcxjh20230742)

Abstract:

Scientifically establishing diversified peak-valley configuration schemes of flight slot coordination parameter represents a potent strategy for enhancing the flexibility of flight slot scheduling and alleviating planned primary delays
at busy airport. This paper proposes a general method for the generic peak-valley configuration of flight slot coordination parameter. Firstly, the structure of airport slot fire -break is defined, and the determination process of a
generic peak-valley configuration scheme of flight slot coordination parameter is introduced. Secondly, a schedule based prediction model for airport primary delay is developed, along with the design of rules generating peak-valley
feature parameters of flight slot and expected delay datasets. Finally, the synthetic minority oversampling technique
(SMOTE) and edited nearest neighbors(ENN) algorithm are then employed to addressthe issue of imbalanced dataset
category, and various decision tree classification algorithms are applied to summarize the generic peak-valley configuration pattern set of airport tree-structured slot coordination parameters under a certain level of delay. Taking
Shanghai Pudong International Airport as an example, the prediction accuracy of the primary delay model for airport
arrival and departure, as well as the accuracy of extracting the airport peak-valley configuration combination of
flight slot coordination parameter are verified, and the pattern set of tree-structured peak-valley configuration combination under certain delay level is established. This paper can offer novel insights and methods for the refined setting of airport slot coordination parameter, and providing theoretical support for the optimization and configuration
of flight slot.

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