Flight Disruption Awareness System for Schedule Delay Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for analyzing flight operations disruptions are labor-intensive and time-consuming, making it difficult to quickly assess and respond to multiple delays that affect flight schedules, leading to potential missed opportunities for recovery actions.
Innovation Solution
A flight schedule disruption awareness system that includes a disruption determination control unit to receive and analyze flight schedule updates, determining disruptions and displaying them on a visual interface that prioritizes delays based on impact, using color codes or other indicia to quickly identify significant disruptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual analysis of flight delays is performed by operations personnel, then comprehensive assessment of flight disruptions can be achieved, but the process becomes labor-intensive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical analysis process with an automated computer-based system that receives delay data, applies disruption threshold criteria, and generates disruption assessments automatically. This substitution eliminates labor-intensive manual analysis while maintaining comprehensive assessment accuracy through systematic automated evaluation of all delay factors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an automated disruption determination system as an intermediary between raw delay data and operations personnel decisions. This intermediary automatically processes delay information, applies disruption criteria, and presents assessed disruptions to operators, thereby reducing their manual analysis burden while preserving comprehensive assessment capabilities.
2Measurement precision
If multiple delays are analyzed separately and together by individuals at operations center, then complete disruption assessment can be achieved, but the complexity and time required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the analysis of multiple individual delays into a single integrated automated process. The system receives multiple delay inputs, automatically evaluates their combined impact against disruption thresholds, and generates a unified disruption assessment. This combining approach maintains complete assessment accuracy while reducing process complexity by eliminating the need for separate manual analyses of each delay.
3Speed
If real-time analysis of flight disruptions is implemented, then recovery actions can be taken promptly, but the system complexity and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex manual real-time analysis with an automated computer-based system that continuously receives delay data, applies disruption criteria, and generates assessments in real-time. This automated substitution achieves prompt response speeds while managing system complexity through algorithmic processing rather than human cognitive processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements continuous automated monitoring and assessment of flight delays, ensuring that disruption analysis occurs continuously rather than intermittently. This continuous automated action maintains real-time response capability while reducing the complexity burden on operations personnel by keeping the analytical process continuously active and updated.
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AI summary
A flight schedule disruption awareness system is configured to provide situational awareness of flight disruptions that affect a flight schedule for one or more flights. The flight schedule disruption awareness system includes a disruption determination control unit that is configured to receive a plurality of flight schedule update inputs related to flight schedule updates to the flight schedule. The disruption determination control unit determines one or more flight disruptions from the plurality of flight schedule update inputs. A display is operatively coupled to the disruption determination control unit. The disruption determination control unit shows delays caused by the flight disruption(s) on the display.