A Configuration Analysis of Ukrainian Flight Routes Network

Air transport services compose a continuously growing transportation industry, which became closer to their operational perils. Classical air traffic management system includes a network of flight routes for performing civil airspace operation. In our study, we provide an analysis of flight routes network configuration based on graph theory. Ukrainian flight routes network has been represented in the form of a weighted planar graph. Measures of weighted, closeness, betweenness centrality and waypoints degree are used for configuration analysis. Also, an edge vector was statistically analyzed for Ukrainian flight routes network. Results of analysis identify the most loaded and frequently used waypoints based on network configuration. Obtained data are useful for the development of Ukrainian flight routes network and efficient flight traffic planning procedures.