Classical approaches for modelling aircraft taxispeed assume constant speed or use a turning rate function to approximate taxi-timings for taxiing aircraft. However, those approaches cannot predict spatio-temporal component of aircrafttaxi trajectory due to a lack of consideration of the complexity and stochasticity of airport-airside movements and interactions. This research adopts the Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) algorithm for aircraft taxi-speed modelling, while considering multiple operational factors including surrounding traffic on the ground and target take-off time. The proposed model can learn and reproduce the ground movement patterns in a real-world dataset under different circumstances. In addition, the characteristics of the taxi-speed model are also analyzed, especially focusing on handling conflict scenarios with surrounding traffic. Finally, the travel-time of the aircraft from starting to target positions are compared with baseline models and actual taxiing data. The proposed model outperforms all the baseline models with a significant margin. In terms of spatial completion (SC), it achieves up to 97.1% for arrivals and 88.3% for departures. The results also show significantly high performance for temporal completion. The model achieves a stable performance with low Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) (16.8 seconds for arrivals, 32.4 seconds for departures) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) (4.4% for arrivals and 7.6% for departures). Our model's errors are 72% lower for arrivals and 48% lower for departures when compared to other baseline models.

Increasing availability of air traffic data has opened new opportunities for better understanding of Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. At Airport-Air side, A-SMGCS (Advanced Surface Movement Guidance & Control System) data may provide useful insights to improve efficiency and safety of airport operations by understanding traffic patterns, taxiway usage, ground speed profiles and any anomaly behaviour. However, A-SMGCS data comes from the fusion of several sensors such as MLAT, ADS-B and SMR. This leads to high and variable noise, missing data values, and temporal and spatial misalignment. In this study, we proposed a new and simplified representation of ground movement trajectories using a mapmatching algorithm applied on A-SMGCS data. The proposed approach not only overcomes above mentioned issues of data, but also takes into consideration airport specific operational constraints. The algorithm shows a good matching results with mean percentage error of approximate 8.13% . The matching trajectories and sequences of nodes in resulting graph, supports a variety of analysis about airport operations. To show the effectiveness of proposed approach, we performed some analysis such as traffic patterns, taxi-way usages, speed profiling and anomaly detection, using one month of A-SMGCS data at Singapore Changi Airport.

Conflicts between taxiing aircraft are resolved by making the aircraft with lower priority wait, slow down, or change their path. Prevalent priority assignment is based on rules such as First Come First Serve. However, this is not viable as priority assignment done by an air-traffic controller (ATC) based on multiple factors. Thus, a machine learning approach is proposed to mimic an ATC's priority assignment. Firstly, the potential conflict scenarios between two aircraft from historical data, which are resolved, are detected and extracted. Then a Random Forest model is developed to learn ATC's behaviors. The model mimics ATC's behavior with an accuracy of 89% and can thus be an effective approach for priority assignment in path-planning and conflict resolution. Further analysis indicates that features such as unimpeded time difference, distance to destination and start, and speed are major considerations that affect the ATC's decisions.

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