Applications of Operations Research in the Air Transport Industry

Barnhart, Cynthia; Belobaba, Peter; Odoni, Amedeo R.

doi:10.1287/trsc.37.4.368.23276

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“…Barnhart et al (2003) give an overview of operations research in airline revenue management. The primary objective of airline revenue management models is to determine the optimal fare mix: how many seats of each booking class should be available, given demand forecasts and a limited total number of seats?…”

Section: Revenue Management In Freight Transportationmentioning

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The Cargo Fare Class Mix problem for an intermodal corridor: revenue management in synchromodal container transportation

2017

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The intermodal hinterland transportation of maritime containers is under pressure from port authorities and shippers to achieve a more integrated, efficient network operation. Current optimisation methods in literature yield limited results in practice, though, as the transportation product structure limits the flexibility to optimise network logistics. Synchromodality aims to overcome this by a new product structure based on differentiation in price and lead time. Each product is considered as a fare class with a related service level, allowing to target different customer segments and to use revenue management for maximising revenue. However, higher priced fare classes come with tighter planning restrictions and must be carefully balanced with lower priced fare classes to match available capacity and optimise network utilisation. Based on the developments of intermodal networks in North West European, such as the network of European Gateway Services, the Cargo Fare Class Mix problem is proposed. Its purpose is to set limits for each fare class at a tactical level, such that the expected revenue is maximised, considering the available capacity at the operational level. Setting limits at the tactical level is important, as it reflects the necessity of long-term agreements between the transportation provider and its customers. A solution method for an intermodal corridor is proposed, considering a single intermodal connection towards a region with multiple destinations. The main purpose of the article is to show that using a limit on each fare class increases revenue and reliability, thereby outperforming existing fare class mix policies, such as Littlewood.

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Section: Revenue Management In Freight Transportationmentioning

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The Cargo Fare Class Mix problem for an intermodal corridor: revenue management in synchromodal container transportation

2017

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“…The paper [2] gives on overview of OR applications in the air transport industry. The literature that exists related with this subject is usually divided according to the specific resource to be recovered.…”

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Solving Airline Operations Problems Using Specialized Agents in a Distributed Multi-Agent System

Castro

Oliveira

2008

Enterprise Information Systems

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Abstract. An airline schedule very rarely operates as planned. Problems related with aircrafts, crew members and passengers are common and the actions towards the solution of these problems are usually known as operations recovery. The Airline Operations Control Center (AOCC) tries to solve these problems with the minimum cost and satisfying all the required rules. In this paper we present the implementation of a Distributed Multi-Agent System (MAS) representing the existing roles in an AOCC. This MAS deals with several operational bases and for each type of operation problems it has several specialized software agents that implement different algorithms (heuristic, AI, OR, etc.), competing to find the best solution for each problem. We present a real case study taken from an AOCC where a crew recovery problem is solved. Computational results using a real airline schedule are presented, including a comparison with a solution for the same problem found by the human operators in the AOCC. We show that, even in simple problems and when comparing with solutions found by human operators, it is possible to find valid solutions, in less time and with a smaller cost.

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“…Runway complexes of major airports are very scarce and expensive resources and their capacity is gravely limited by separation requirements between aircrafts, see Barnhart et al [2]. If an arriving aircraft enters the radar range of an airport, then air traffic control must assign a landing time within a specific time window to this aircraft.…”

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Aircraft landing problems with aircraft classes

Briskorn

Stolletz

2013

J Sched

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This paper focuses on the aircraft landing problem that is to assign landing times to aircraft approaching the airport under consideration. Each aircraft's landing time must be in a time interval encompassing a target landing time. If the actual landing time deviates from the target landing time additional costs occur which depend on the amount of earliness and lateness, respectively. The objective is to minimize overall cost. We consider the set of aircraft being partitioned into aircraft classes such that two aircraft of the same class are equal with respect to wake turbulence. We develop algorithms to solve the corresponding problem. Analyzing the worst case run time behavior, we show that our algorithms run in polynomial time for fairly general cases of the problem.Moreover, we present integer programming models. We show by means of a computational study how optimality properties can be used to increase efficiency of standard solvers.

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Applications of Operations Research in the Air Transport Industry

Cited by 234 publications

References 103 publications

The Cargo Fare Class Mix problem for an intermodal corridor: revenue management in synchromodal container transportation

The Cargo Fare Class Mix problem for an intermodal corridor: revenue management in synchromodal container transportation

Solving Airline Operations Problems Using Specialized Agents in a Distributed Multi-Agent System

Aircraft landing problems with aircraft classes

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