Recent Progress about Flight Delay under Complex Network

Table 6

Recent impact studies on flight delay causality.

Region	Time period	Network type	Data in time series	Significance test method	Network property metric	Ref.
Europe	2011.3.1–2011.8.9	Airport network	Average landing delay within one hour	Granger causality test extreme events identification-based test	Link number	[29]
					Efficiency
					Largest shortest path length
					Transitivity
					Diameter
					Assortativity
China	2015.8.1–2015.8.31	Airport network	Average landing delay within one hour	Granger causality test	Link number	[30]
					Efficiency
					Largest shortest path length
					Transitivity
					Assortativity
China	2012.7.1–2012.7.31	Airport network	Average departure delay within one hour (with consideration of cancelled flights)	Granger causality test	Degree	[31]
					Average cluster coefficient
					Largest connected cluster
					Reciprocity parameter
					Community
					Motifs
China	2016.12.1–2016.12.31	Airport network	Average landing delay within one hour	Low-dimensional approximation of condition mutual information for transfer entropy test	Degree	[32]
					Link number
					Efficiency
					Average cluster coefficient
					Assortativity
					Motif
					Modularity
USA China	2012.8.1–2013.8.31	Airport network	Average landing delay within one hour	Pearson correlation test	Betweenness	[33]
					Diameter
					Average path length
					Average cluster coefficient
USA	2015.1.1–2015.3.31	Airport network	Total departure delay within 15 minutes	Granger causality in tail test	Link number	[34]
					Average path length
					Average cluster coefficient