Abstract:With the continuous growth of air traffic flow, air traffic congestion and delay problems are becoming more and more prominent, which puts forward higher requirements for air traffic management system. This paper reviews the research on air traffic flow prediction based on spatio-temporal characteristics, and focuses on the key spatio-temporal characteristics of air traffic flow, such as chaotic characteristics, fractal characteristics and multi-scale characteristics, and discusses the application of these characteristics in air traffic flow prediction model. This paper systematically reviews the research context of air traffic flow prediction in recent years, summarizes three main prediction technologies based on 4D trajectory prediction method, model-driven method and data-driven method, and looks forward to the future development direction of air traffic flow prediction based on spatio-temporal characteristics, in order to provide theoretical reference for the development of intelligent air traffic management.