Air Traffic Analysis with PostGIS and MobilityDB

Wendell Turner from CSSI, Inc. brings us 'Air Traffic Analysis with PostGIS and MobilityDB'.
Aircraft flight tracks naturally lend themselves to being stored as moving objects, and the MobilityDB extension to PostGIS is used to store these tracks for analysis. These tracks can then be intersected both geospatially and temporally with airspace elements (called traffic management initiatives) and measured to determine the effectiveness of those air traffic procedures. The moving object analysis also allows for measuring flight path deviations which were a result of the procedures used.