Welcome to Arthur, Brice and Caroline's visualisation
Welcome to our project web page! We provide an interactive visualisation in time and space of flights in the United States at single-plane resolution. There exist a wide variety of flight route visualisations based on maps, showing in many cases the global trends in air traffic. Here we take a different perspective, showing air traffic patterns from a plane's eye view. The flights are domestic flights in the whole of US over the month of January 2015.
10 mini-maps are shown at a time each representing one aircraft's flight pattern. Over 4,000 aircraft trajectories can be viewed in this way. To the right is a Marey map showing the detailed flight trajectory of the selected plane. You can ask questions such as: how do different planes move around? Over what timescales? What are the central hubs? Tying these patterns to economic efficiency can also be of interest for airline companies and airports. By hovering over the circles and lines on the Marey map you can access airport names, flight distances and durations. The colors make it possible to highlight the punctuality of the different flights for a given plane.
Two types of filters are available: one to visualize any aircraft by tail number and the other to focus on airports of origin. Note that the airport of origin corresponds to the airport through which the plane flies the most.
