Predicting the Skies: A Novel Model for Flight-Level Passenger Traffic Forecasting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03397v2
• Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:23:04 GMT
• Title: Predicting the Skies: A Novel Model for Flight-Level Passenger Traffic Forecasting
• Authors: Sina Ehsani, Elina Sergeeva, Wendy Murdy, and Benjamin Fox
• Abstract summary: This study introduces a novel, multimodal deep learning approach to the challenge of predicting flight-level passenger traffic. Our model ingests historical traffic data, fare closure information, and seasonality attributes specific to each flight. Our model demonstrates an approximate 33% improvement in Mean Squared Error compared to traditional benchmarks.
• Score: 0.0
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate prediction of flight-level passenger traffic is of paramount importance in airline operations, influencing key decisions from pricing to route optimization. This study introduces a novel, multimodal deep learning approach to the challenge of predicting flight-level passenger traffic, yielding substantial accuracy improvements compared to traditional models. Leveraging an extensive dataset from American Airlines, our model ingests historical traffic data, fare closure information, and seasonality attributes specific to each flight. Our proposed neural network integrates the strengths of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), exploiting the temporal patterns and spatial relationships within the data to enhance prediction performance. Crucial to the success of our model is a comprehensive data processing strategy. We construct 3D tensors to represent data, apply careful masking strategies to mirror real-world dynamics, and employ data augmentation techniques to enrich the diversity of our training set. The efficacy of our approach is borne out in the results: our model demonstrates an approximate 33\% improvement in Mean Squared Error (MSE) compared to traditional benchmarks. This study, therefore, highlights the significant potential of deep learning techniques and meticulous data processing in advancing the field of flight traffic prediction.

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