Airport Traffic Tracker

Calculated by footfall, thanks google for projected trip durations.

Overview

The driving idea behind this application, is to provide a simple way to track the traffic of a given airport. Designed to be a part of a larger system, i.e. complete trip planning with integrated traffic tracking.

Technical Summary

Data from a single source is never reliable, instead, scraping multiple sources will guarantee a much higher degree of accuracy. However, this introduces a number of challenges.

Experience

  • Don't trust advertised accuracy
  • Web Scraping
  • Data Structures
  • Traffic algorithms

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