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Stratus

Team of 2

Live operations dashboard for airport ground vehicle decarbonization — replays 1,422 real ATL flights and optimizes Delta's $65M electrification budget.

80%

charging cost reduction

01 — Problem

Hartsfield-Jackson runs nearly 1,000 Delta flights a day, each triggering a swarm of diesel baggage tugs, belt loaders, GPUs, and pushback tractors. Delta has committed to 100% GSE electrification by 2035 and spends $65M a year to get there, but no tool existed to decide which vehicles to electrify first, when to charge them, or what the financial case looks like.

02 — Approach

  1. 01

    Python/FastAPI backend runs an in-memory simulation — every 100ms it advances a clock, dispatches ground vehicles to arriving flights based on aircraft-specific recipes, and moves them along a precomputed Dijkstra-routed taxiway graph built from OpenStreetMap data.

  2. 02

    Next.js frontend with Mapbox GL JS renders the live map; Zustand manages state; Recharts powers the roadmap dashboard. Aircraft motion is computed entirely client-side from the flight schedule.

  3. 03

    Ranks every diesel vehicle class by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided. Schedules EV charging against real Georgia Power TOU-GSD rates on Mercedes-Benz Fleet Depot Charging infrastructure.

  4. 04

    Models depot-side capital projects (solar, battery storage, civil works) with full NPV analysis at Delta's 7% cost of capital, including IRA tax credit stacking and Delta's $50/tonne internal carbon price.

  5. 05

    Every number is defensible — emission factors from ACRP Report 78, electricity rates from the Georgia Power tariff PDF, flight data from 1,422 real OpenSky Network turns.

03 — Results

80%

charging cost reduction vs. naive scheduling

1,422

real flights simulated

402

depot-to-gate Dijkstra routes precomputed

Stack

PythonFastAPINext.jsMapbox GL JSWebSocketsZustandRechartsOpenStreetMap

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