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Steve Riffe
Data Urbanism · Solutions Architect
PORTAL / AVIATION DATA PLATFORM & CARTOGRAPHY
Production System · avdb.riffe.co.uk · Google OAuth 2.0

AvDB Aviation Platform .

BigQuery cloud warehouse modeling 54.3M DOT flight records, featuring 1990s geodesic great-circle cartography, multi-airport catchment systems, and network route dynamics.

54.3M
BTS & DB1B Records
50,409
Airports & Catchments
< 1.2s
BigQuery Query Latency
Cloud Run
Serverless Architecture
Systems Architecture

End-to-End Aviation Ingestion & Analytical Marts

Sourced from the U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) T-100 domestic segment reports and DB1B 10% Ticket Sample surveys.

01 · SOURCING

DOT Raw Datasets

14.0M rows T-100 capacity data and 40.3M rows DB1B OD40 10% ticket sample ingested into raw BigQuery staging tables.

02 · DIMENSIONAL

Catchment Systems

Mapping multi-airport metropolitan catchments (WAS → DCA/IAD/BWI, NYC → JFK/LGA/EWR, CHI → ORD/MDW) and airport code migrations.

03 · ANALYTICS

Analytical Marts

Materialized summaries partitioned by month and clustered by route: reporting.mart_airport_network_summary & mart_airline_network_performance.

04 · PRESENTATION

Interactive Web App

Streamlit multi-page interface deployed to Google Cloud Run with Google OAuth 2.0 authentication and PyDeck geodesic visualizers.

Cartography Engine

1990s Geodesic Route Atlas

Renders 2D geodesic great-circle lines hugging the surface with fixed-pixel pin nodes, IATA 3-letter typography, and concentric bullseye origin hub markers.

PyDeck Great-Circle Layers
Revenue Strategy

Unserved Target Proposals

Identifies unserved 1-stop connecting passenger flows, classifies Business vs. Leisure yield premiums, and proposes carrier expansion candidates.

Connecting Market Economics
Operational Intelligence

Airline Network Dynamics

Multi-carrier route competition matrices, stage-length economics, historical merger lineage resolution, and fleet gauge capacity analytics.

Fleet & Route Analysis
Live Aviation Analytics

Explore the interactive AvDB Streamlit application

Live on Cloud Run with full carrier fleet economics and airport catchment filters.