1. Air Traffic Simulation Sam Eberspacher

2. What is it? Simulation of air traffic over the United States Uses a sample of 51 major airports to simulate Uses latitude and longitude for more accurate travel times Airports act as any airport would, regulating the landing and take-off of airplanes Goal is to chart delays and examine how they propagate thought the system

3. Progress Geocoder written to obtain latitudes and longitudes from an address Simulator displays the airports using the latitudes and longitudes Airports have a queue for take-off and landing Airplanes have destinations and a projected schedule  Used when delay calculations are implemented

4. Screenshot

5. Geocoding Process by which an address is converted to longitude and latitude I use Google Maps geocoder  Send an HTTP request to Google including the address, output format and Google Maps key  http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=address&outp ut=csv&key=GMAP_KEY http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q  Address formatting is important

6. Address Formatting I tried several types of address formatting because I do not have street addresses Airport code works well (BWI, AUS, PHX, etc)‏ Code with “airport” attached also works well In order to maximize the number of valid airports the geocoding program tries one form, then the other in the event of a failed request

7. Geocoder Screenshot Validation was needed to verify that the latitude and longitude is in the United States

8. Whats Next? Implement collision detection and avoidance Animate the traffic and implement path tracing Implement delay calculations and map them to a color Weight traffic in and out of airports with time to more realistically model patterns