Universal patterns in passenger flight departure delays

• Main Authors: Wang, Yanjun, Cao, Yakun, Zhu, Chenping, Wu, Fan, Hu, Minghua, Duong, Vu, Watkins, Michael, Barzel, Baruch, Stanley, H. Eugene
• Other Authors: Air Traffic Management Research Institute
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Civil Engineering; Statistical Physics, Thermodynamics and Nonlinear Dynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146108
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Departure delays are a major cause of economic loss and inefficiency in the growing industry of passenger flights. A departure delay of a current flight is inevitably affected by the late arrival of the flight immediately preceding it with the same aircraft. We seek to understand the mechanisms of s...