Operations Research in the Airline Industry

✍ Scribed by Michael F. Argüello, Jonathan F. Bard (auth.), Gang Yu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 491
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 9
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

260 2 Crew Legalities and Crew Pairing Repair 264 3 Model and Mathematical Formulation 266 4 Solution Methodology 271 5 Computational Experiences 277 6 Conclusion 285 REFERENCES 286 10 THE USE OF OPTIMIZATION TO PERFORM AIR TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT Kenneth Lindsay, E. Andrew Boyd, George Booth, and Charles Harvey 287 1 Introduction 288 2 The Traffic Flow Management (TFM) Problem 289 3 Recent TFM Optimization Models 292 4 The Time Assignment Model (TAM) 302 5 Summary and Conclusions 307 REFERENCES 309 11 THE PROCESSES OF AIRLINE SYSTEM OPERATIONS CONTROL Seth C. Grandeau, Michael D. Clarke, and Dennis F.X. Mathaisel 312 1 Introduction 313 2 The Four Phases of Airline Schedule Development 315 The Airline Operations Control Center (OCC) 3 320 4 Analysis of Operational Problems 331 5 Areas For Improvement 352 6 Case Study: PT Garuda Indonesia Airlines 357 REFERENCES 368 12 THE COMPLEX CONFIGURATION MODEL Bruce W. Patty and Jim Diamond 370 1 Introduction 370 Problem Description 2 371 Problem Formulation 3 375 4 Model Implementation 379 ix Contents 383 5 Summary REFERENCES 383 13 INTEGRATED AIRLINE SCHEDULE PLANNING Cynthia Barnhart, Fang Lu, and Rajesh Shenoi 384 1 Introduction 385 2 Fleet Assignment and Crew Pairing Problems: Existing M- els and Algorithms 388 3 An Integrated Approximate Fleet Assignment and Crew Pa- ing Model 393 4 An Advanced Integrated Solution Approach 395 5 Case Study 396 6 Conclusions and Future Research Directions 399 REFERENCES 401 14 AIRLINE SCHEDULE PERTURBATION PROBLEM: LANDING AND TAKEOFF WITH

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Models and Methods for Managing Airline Irregular Operations....Pages 1-45
A Large-Scale Neural Network for Airline Forecasting in Revenue Management....Pages 46-67
A Tutorial on Optimization in the Context of Perishable-Asset Revenue Management Problems for the Airline Industry....Pages 68-100
A Selective Multicommodity Network Flow Algorithm for Air Traffic Control....Pages 101-123
A Method for Optimally Solving the Rostering Problem....Pages 124-157
An Approach for Just-in-Time Airline Scheduling....Pages 158-188
Aircraft Ground Movement Simulation....Pages 189-227
Crew Pairing Optimization....Pages 228-258
A Decision Support Framework for Crew Management During Airline Irregular Operations....Pages 259-286
The Use of Optimization to Perform Air Traffic Flow Management....Pages 287-311
The Processes of Airline System Operations Control....Pages 312-369
The Complex Configuration Model....Pages 370-383
Integrated Airline Schedule Planning....Pages 384-403
Airline Schedule Perturbation Problem: Landing and Takeoff with Nonsplitable Resource for the Ground Delay Program....Pages 404-432
Airline Schedule Perturbation Problem: Ground Delay Program with Splitable Resources....Pages 433-460
Back Matter....Pages 461-473

✦ Subjects

Operation Research/Decision Theory; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Optimization