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March
8, 2001 6:30 a.m.EDT
LOT
Polish Airlines, Inc. Gains Insight into Flight Delays with
Advanced Visual Systems' Technology
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(Waltham,MA
-- March 8, 2001 6:30 a.m. EDT)
LOT
Polish Airlines, Inc. now understands how a 30 minute delay
in a 9:00 am flight from Warsaw to Paris can negatively impact
the take-off time of a 6:00 pm flight from London to Warsaw
thanks to a new analysis tool created for the airlines using
data visualization software from Advanced Visual Systems.
Warsaw
University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and
Computational Modeling (ICM) has created a sophisticated computational
model of the airline's operations using the AVS/Express software
development platform's 2D and 3D visualization and data analysis
techniques. With AVS/Express, data from a number of diverse
sources has been incorporated to analyze how weather, air
traffic, baggage, de-icing, maintenance problems and other
critical factors affect the airline's ability to maintain
its flight schedule.
With this
software solution, LOT can comprehensively analyze data and
observe trends and patterns that were previously unknown.
With new information, analysts can predict delays and create
a number of "what-if" scenarios to determine ways to counter
the negative impact of these delays. By utilizing the modular
framework of AVS/Express, the flight schedule models are able
to be coupled directly to the interactive visual presentations
in such a way that LOT managers can easily modify the scenarios.
According
to Krzysztof (Chris) S. Nowinski, scientific visualization
specialist for ICM, "With the information now available to
the airline with this software program, LOT is able to proactively
manage their flight schedule. For example, in certain circumstances,
they may make the decision to schedule more time between flights
because now they can see that on certain days and at certain
times during the day when flights are scheduled very tightly,
a single delay can create delays across the entire flight
schedule. Similarly, one can easily estimate the impact of
improved ground service at a particular airport on overall
punctuality of all the airline's flights."
Continues
Nowinski, "This software has been readily embraced by LOT
and has already demonstrated to the airlines ways to improve
operations." ICM expects to deliver a new release of the software
within the next few weeks that incorporates more advanced
visualization and simulation into the analysis.
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Advanced Visual Systems
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Visual Systems (AVS) is an international leader in data visualization
software and solutions that enable computer users to experience
and interact with all types of business, scientific and engineering
data. AVS offers a complete line of products that bring information
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