ALTO

Aviation Logistics & Terminal Optimizer

Alaska runs about 220 aircraft a day through Seattle, and every one of them needs a gate. I took a year of flight data and built a model that plans the gates for a whole day, then re-plans them when something goes wrong.

Pick a day, break it, and run it.

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Pick a day

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Break something

minutes late
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What it costs

Nothing broken yet.

Added by the disruption
Recovered by re-planning
Share recovered
Aircraft moved
Run Delay Gate use Towing Common use Fees Gates
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Gate by gate

Run a scenario to compare the two.
at gate split visit moved gate late both

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A note on how this was built: I designed the model and wrote everything on this site, including the mistakes documented on the Methods page. Claude wrote the code: the interactive website, the API, and the backend pieces that got complicated enough that doing them alone would have taken a lot longer. It also made the result better than what I'd built alone. Full story on the Methods page.