Introduction

In sfo: San Francisco International Airport Monthly Air Passengers

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The sfo package provides monthly statistics of San Francisco International (SFO) airport air traffic between July 2005 and December 2022. That includes the following two datasets:

• sfo_passengers - air traffic passengers statistics
• sfo_stats - air traffic landing statistics

sfo_passengers

The sfo_passengers dataset focuses on monthly air passengers statistics, and it contains the following fields:

• activity_period - Activity year and month in YYYYMM format
• operating_airline -Airline name for the aircraft operator
• operating_airline_iata_code -The International Air Transport Association (IATA) two-letter designation for the Operating Airline
• published_airline -Airline name that issues the ticket and books revenue for passenger activity
• published_airline_iata_code -The International Air Transport Association (IATA) two-letter designation for the Published Airline
• geo_summary -The flights' classification by domestic for flights that arrived from or departed to a destination within the United States and international for destinations outside the United States
• geo_region - The flight origin/destination geographic region details
• activity_type_code -A description of the physical action a passenger took in relation to a flight, which includes boarding a flight ("enplanements"), getting off a flight ("deplanements") and transiting to another location ("intransit")
• price_category_code -A categorization of whether a Published Airline is a low-cost carrier or not a low-cost carrier
• terminal -The airport's terminal designations at SFO where passenger activity took place
• boarding_area -The airport's boarding area designations at SFO where passenger activity took place
• passenger_count -The number of monthly passengers associated with the above attribute fields

Data source: San Francisco data portal (DataSF) API

library(sfo)

data("sfo_passengers")

str(sfo_passengers)

head(sfo_passengers)

sfo_stats

The sfo_stats dataset focuses on monthly landing statistics, and it contains the following fields:

• activity_period - Activity year and month in YYYYMM format
• operating_airline -Airline name for the aircraft operator
• operating_airline_iata_code -The International Air Transport Association (IATA) two-letter designation for the Operating Airline
• published_airline -Airline name that issues the ticket and books revenue for passenger activity
• published_airline_iata_code -The International Air Transport Association (IATA) two-letter designation for the Published Airline
• geo_summary -The flights' classification by domestic for flights that arrived from or departed to a destination within the United States and international for destinations outside the United States
• geo_region - The flight origin/destination geographic region details
• landing_aircraft_type - A designation for three types of aircraft that landed at SFO, which includes passenger aircraft, cargo-only aircraft (“freighters”), or combination aircraft (“combi”)
• aircraft_body_type - A designation that is independent from Landing Aircraft Type, which determines whether commercial aircraft landed at SFO is a wide body-jet, narrow-body jet, regional-jet or a propeller operated aircraft
• aircraft_manufacturer - Manufacturer name for the aircraft that landed at SFO
• aircraft_model - Model designation of aircraft by the manufacturer
• aircraft_version - Variations of the Aircraft Model, also known as the “dash number”, designated by the manufacturer to segregate unique versions of the same model
• landing_count - The number of aircraft landings associated with General and Landings Statistics attribute fields
• total_landed_weight - The aircraft landed weight (in pounds) associated with General and Landings Statistics attribute fields

Data source: San Francisco data portal (DataSF) API

library(sfo)

data("sfo_stats")

str(sfo_stats)

head(sfo_stats)

sfo documentation built on March 31, 2023, 8:32 p.m.