Visualized air traffic to|from Russian airports
(05.10.2009 — 11.10.2009)
Having my hands on real-time official flight authority data for flights in Russian air space I couldn’t resist to make few simple visualizations. They show a week of domestic and international flights in Oct’09, unfortunately without GPS navigation tracks data (which is unavailable in Russian datasets at all), but with actual departure and arrival times to track delays. So in addition color of the flight patterns shows each flight’s delay levels.
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Some interesting data profiles that bring some light on underlying dataset as well as Russian air traffic zeitgeist: Delayed flights, all flights operated by “Aeroflot”, flights operated by old aircrafts (An-24).
As could be easily observed traffic is heavily radial, tending to operate all regional flights funnily enough mainly through Moscow hub.
Second visualization depict overall flight patterns (10275 total weekly flights, 230 concurrent) and main national hubs in unusual way — airport’s longitudes are mapped to the circle in non-linear manner and hubs are ranked by their cumulative air traffic expressed by distance from the circle center.
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