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SUBMITTER: Wang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181864 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Yanjun Y Cao Yakun Y Zhu Chenping C Wu Fan F Hu Minghua M Duong Vu V Watkins Michael M Barzel Baruch B Stanley H Eugene HE
Scientific reports 20200423 1
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 such propagated delays, and to obtain universal metrics by which to evaluate an airline's operational effectiveness in delay alleviation. Here we use big data collected by the American Bureau of Transp ...[more]