Forecasting Technology of National-Wide Civil Aviation Traffic

The long-term forecasting of national-wide civil aviation traffic provides basis for the airspace project planning. A gray combination forecasting model is put forward based on the GM (1, 1) forecast model and least squares principle. With the historical data analysis of the national-wide air traffic from the year 1985 to 2008, the forecasting applicability is examined with three different methods, such as the time series forecasting, regression forecasting and neural-network forecasting. After analyzing the characteristics of Chinese national-wide civil aviation traffic data and contrasting forecasting result, the gray combined forecasting model produces the best effect among these forecasting models.