Coordinated by:
University of Westminster
Consortium members:
Innaxis
What is the effectiveness of passenger-driven initiatives such as flight prioritisation rules in air transport?
Research Questions
How is this to be measured as there are currently no ‘passenger-centric’ metrics? What are the associated trade-offs with flight delays and delay propagation? The POEM (Passenger-Oriented Enhanced Metrics) project has built the first full European network simulation model with explicit passenger itineraries and delay cost estimations. At the core of the project was the design of insightful, new air transport performance metrics, and their evaluation under novel flight and passenger prioritisation scenarios.
Research Scope
Research Results
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Using these modelled scenarios, the key objectives were to explore the trade-offs between the (new) flight-centric and passenger-centric metrics and to characterise the propagation of delay through the network. The model is capable of assessing new policy and regulation impacts in addition to future flight prioritisation rules, in terms of numerous performance metrics, including delay costs POEM concluded that simple flight prioritisation rules, e.g. based on passenger numbers, were ineffective; that policy-driven rules only made an impact when current airline constraints were relaxed; and that airline cost minimisation rules resulted in win-win outcomes. Furthermore, passenger-centric metrics are needed to see the full impacts of operational change. Reactionary (knock-on) delay in the network, which accounts for almost half of all delays in Europe, have been better characterised by the POEM analyses.