Data Mining Tool for Fleet Management

Metron, Inc. builds a data mining tool for fleet management that allows the user, in real time, to identify cost benefit opportunities within large quantities of operational data. Designed for Airlines Operations Control (AOC) personnel, we build a tool that manages large quantities of current time and archived air traffic, crew, passenger, hub, weather, and National Airspace System (NAS) data. Our tool exploits standard data mining techniques, electronically encoded playbooks for weather events, a predictor for reasoning about weather and how it affects the future of flights, and an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI). The user receives personalized reports that identify cost savings due to weather conflicts, hub priority changes, avoidance of traffic congestion, and other factors. Our data mining tool allows AOCs to make real-time decisions that anticipate future events and save the airlines money, reduce traffic congestion, and improve the overall NAS efficiency.