Posts about stuff relating to airports
Hidden within the Data: Wildlife Strike Costs in Australia
From time to time, I like to write about wildlife-strike-related research. In my wrap-up of last September’s AAWHG Forum, I hinted at a presentation I delivered on wildlife strike costs in Australia and promised that more details were coming soon. Well, today is soon! A couple of nights ago, my first ever peer-reviewed academic journal article was published*, and it has the very scientific-sounding title of “Estimating the Cost of Wildlife Strikes in Australian Aviation Using Random Forest Modeling.”
Fast-Time Simulation: Building an Airport
It’s Sunday night, and while I haven’t quite finished with my first foray into fast-time simulation, I am enjoying the process. Today, I set about “building” an airport for my simulation. To make sure it worked, I ran a simulation of one day’s flight schedule. ChatGPT has been here to help me, but, as I will discuss here and in the days following, it hasn’t been as big of a help as I had hoped.
(UPDATED) Fast-Time Simulation Series: Release the Nerds
Fast-time simulation is a topic that has always teased my interest. I’ve enjoyed building models of some pretty complex systems in Excel, but I’ve pushed that platform to the limit and making the jump up to more sophisticated modelling has always seemed like too big of a leap. It seemed the realm of hardcore coders or professional platforms that don’t have a “play around for free” option.
With ChatGPT on my side, I decided to give it a go this weekend. So, come along with me as I either leap to new heights or fall into an abyss.
Aerodrome Geodata & The Aerodrome Local Ownership Plan (ALOP)
In light of COVID-19, partly because of it or exacerbated by it, the Australian Government has published an issues paper on the Future of Australia’s Aviation Sector with public consultation open until 13 November 2020. The paper is looking at a range of issues and not just COVID-recovery-related topics. They are also looking at regional access, airport regulation and funding.
One section in particular caught my eye and that was looking into the Aerodrome Local Ownership Plan (ALOP) and possible changes designed to free-up local government options. There is an interesting comment in this section that I wanted to explore using data-driven decision making (D3M) and some pretty cool data-visualisation tools that I have recently discovered.
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