Projects and Topics
This page provides a non-exhaustive list of topics and projects that could be developed by students (as part of BSc and MSc dissertations, internships and research collaborations).
For each topic, we provide high-level details and indicate possible techniques that could be used.
For more information, contact airspace-research@westminster.ac.uk
| Topic | Details | Techniques |
| Route clustering and generation | – Analyse historical routes by flights between origin-destination pairs – Cluster them to representative alternatives – Generate representative trajectories | – Clustering – Prediction – Visualisation |
| Fleet assignment to schedules | – Given a set of schedules (rotations) assign aircraft | – Data analysis – Optimisation |
| Catchment areas automatic definition | – From flight estimate, final destination, and initial origin of passengers. – Use of geographical, population and surface mobility data: statistical population data, maps, transport data. – Query of mobility APIs | – Data analysis – Optimisation – Visualisation – API development |
| Flight alternative optimisation | – Optimise rerouting of flights in the event of mass-diversions | – Data analysis – Optimisation |
| Comparison of flight and rail delay distributions | – Analysis of rail and flight delays | – Data analysis and distribution fitting – Simulation of the propagation of delay |
| Shortcuts and flight plan route deviation | – Continue work on shortcut modelling and prediction | – Data analysis – ML models |
| Create data space in OpenStack | – Set up cloud infrastructure in OpenStack | – Infrastructure setting – Cloud computing – Data management and governance |
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