Time-evolving distribution of time lags between commercial airline disasters
| dc.creator | Ausloos, M. | |
| dc.creator | Lambiotte, R. | |
| dc.date | 2005-09-13 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:08:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:08:58Z | |
| dc.description | We have studied the time lags between commercial line airplane disasters and their occurrence frequency till 2002, as obtained from a freely available website. We show that the time lags seem to be well described by Poisson random events, where the average events rate is itself a function of time, i.e. time-dependent Poisson events. This is likely due to the unsteady growth of the industry. The time lag distribution is compared with a truncated Tsallis distribution, thereby showing that the ''phenomenon'' has similarities with a Brownian particle with time dependent mass. We distinguish between ''other causes'' (or natural causes) and ''terrorism acts", the latter amounts to about 5 percents, but we find no drastic difference nor impact due to the latter on the overall distribution. | |
| dc.description | 24 refs, 22 pages, 9 figures to be published in physica a | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509092 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509092 | |
| dc.identifier | Physica A, 362 (2006) 513-524 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/j.physa.2005.09.058 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/131446 | |
| dc.subject | Physics and Society | |
| dc.title | Time-evolving distribution of time lags between commercial airline disasters | |
| dc.type | text |