General Electric Company
Method and system for automatic evaluation of robustness and disruption management for commercial airline flight operations

Abstract:

A method, medium, and system to receive a planned flight schedule and an actual flight schedule; determine root cause disturbances for the actual flight schedule based on the planned flight schedule and the actual flight schedule; evaluate a robustness of the planned flight schedule based on an execution of a simulation-based model to generate a set of quantitative metrics for the planned flight schedule; generate a record of the root cause disturbances and a record of the set of quantitative metrics for the planned flight plan; evaluate a robustness of a test flight schedule based on an execution of the simulation-based model and the determined root cause disturbances applied to the simulation-based model to generate a set of quantitative metrics for the test flight schedule; and generate a record of the set of quantitative metrics for the test flight plan.