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HexAeroR is a EUROCONTROL R package designed for aviation professionals and data analysts. It allows for the determination of used airports, runways, taxiways, and stands based on available (ADS-B) flight trajectory coordinates. This tool aims to enhance aviation data analysis, facilitating the extraction of milestones for performance analysis.

• Airport Detection: Identifies airports involved in a flight's trajectory.
• Runway Utilization: Determines which runways are used during takeoff and landing.

You can install the development version of HexAeroR fromGitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")devtools::install_github("euctrl-pru/HexAeroR")

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(HexAeroR)## basic example code

This will prompt you to download the geospatial metadata from Zenodo necessary to run the package. It will only cache once. The parquet datasets are available here:https://zenodo.org/records/10651018.

# Load trajectory datadf<- load_dataset(name="trajectories.parquet",datatype="test_data")# Create unique ID for each trajectorydf$id<- paste(df$icao24,df$callsign, as.Date(df$time),sep="-")# Identify runwayslist(scored_rwy_detections_df,rwy_detections_df)<- identify_runways(df)

# Load approach hex dataset for an airport (e.g., EGLL)egll<- load_dataset(name="EGLL.parquet",datatype="runway_hex")# Visualize approach cones using leaflet for interactive mapslibrary(leaflet)map_viz<- leaflet(egll) %>%  addTiles() %>%  addPolygons(color=~border_color,fillOpacity=.7,fillColor=~color_map_name) %>%  setView(lng= mean(df$lon),lat= mean(df$lat),zoom=13) %>%  addPopups(~lon,~lat,~tooltip_columns)# Print the mapprint(map_viz)

Download the HTML here:egll_departure.html

• [pending implementation] Taxiway Analysis: Analyzes taxi routes for efficiency and optimization.
• [pending implementation] Stand Identification: Identifies aircraft stands, enhancing ground operation analysis.

We welcome contributions to HexAeroR! Feel free to submit pull requests, report issues, or request features.

HexAeroPy is licensed under the MIT License - see theLICENSE file for details.

Special thanks toEUROCONTROL and thePerformance Review Commission (PRC).

For support or queries, please contact us atpru-support@eurocontrol.int.