Dataset for EUROCONTROL PRC 2024 Data Challenge on Aircraft Take-off Weight Estimation

DOI:10.4121/8cb8484b-dbe7-4750-8b87-a5b1dbc621b4.v2
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DOI: 10.4121/8cb8484b-dbe7-4750-8b87-a5b1dbc621b4

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Sun, Junzi; Spinielli, Enrico; Olive, Xavier; Strohmeier, Martin (2025): Dataset for EUROCONTROL PRC 2024 Data Challenge on Aircraft Take-off Weight Estimation. Version 2. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/8cb8484b-dbe7-4750-8b87-a5b1dbc621b4.v2
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Dataset

Version 2 - 2025-07-14 (latest)
Version 1 - 2025-07-09

This dataset was created for the EUROCONTROL Performance Review Commission (PRC) Data Challenge 2024, which aimed to engage data scientists and aviation enthusiasts in developing open models to estimate aircraft take-off weight from readily available open data sources.



Overview

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The dataset represents a unique collection of otherwise difficult-to-obtain flight information, combining:

- Flight information (origin/destination, take-off/landing times, aircraft type)

- ADS-B trajectory data from OpenSky

- Actual take-off weight data from airlines


This dataset contains 527,162 flights flown throughout Europe in 2022, representing 6.1% of all flights in EUROCONTROL airspace.



DOI for the data repository

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https://doi.org/10.4121/8cb8484b-dbe7-4750-8b87-a5b1dbc621b4



Background

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Aircraft take-off weight (ATOW) is a critical parameter for modeling fuel consumption and estimating aviation emissions. This dataset enables the development of open models to predict ATOW from publicly available flight data.



Citation

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If you use data from this repository, please cite this dataset and also the following paper:


Aircraft Take-off Weight Estimation: The EUROCONTROL PRC 2024 Data Challenge

Enrico Spinielli; Junzi Sun; Martin Strohmeier; Xavier Olive; Quinten Goens; Rainer Koelle; Allan Tart; John Fitzgerald

Journal of Open Aviation Science, 2025

https://doi.org/10.59490/joas.2025.8252



Dataset composition

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The dataset consists of two main components:


1. Actual Take-off Weight (ATOW) Data

- Source: EUROCONTROL's Network Manager augmented with airline-provided take-off weight data

- Airline information is anonymized with agreements for open data sharing

- Total: 527,162 flights with complete weight information


2. Trajectory Data

- Source: OpenSky Network ADS-B state vectors

- Enhanced with meteorological data from Copernicus ERA5 via the fastmeto library

- Time window: 5 minutes before actual off-block time to 30 minutes after arrival


History

  • 2025-07-09 first online
  • 2025-07-14 published, posted

Publisher

4TU.ResearchData

Format

parquet and csv files

Organizations

EUROCONTROL Performance Review Commission;
OpenSky Network;
Delft University of Technology;
The French Aerospace Lab, ONERA

DATA

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