# Airport Taxi Time Prediction and Alerting: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09139 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.09139/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 10 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Nov 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-based Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.02391/) (2016)
- [XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.02754/) (2016)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper proposes a novel approach to predict and determine whether the average taxi- out time at an airport will exceed a pre-defined threshold within the next hour of operations. Prior work in this domain has focused exclusively on predicting taxi-out times on a flight-by-flight basis, which requires significant efforts and data on modeling taxiing activities from gates to runways. Learning directly from surface radar information with minimal processing, a computer vision-based model is proposed that incorporates airport surface data in such a way that adaptation-specific information (e.g., runway configuration, the state of aircraft in the taxiing process) is inferred implicitly and automatically by Artificial Intelligence (AI).