Title
A two stage heuristic algorithm for the integrated aircraft and crew schedule recovery problems
Abstract
We propose a new heuristic algorithm for the integrated aircraft and crew schedule recovery problem.We propose a new model for the integrated aircraft and flight recovery problem.We propose a new model for the crew schedule recovery problem.Three sets of disruption scenarios are simulated to test algorithm's performance. Airline disruptions incurred huge cost for airlines and serious inconvenience for travelers. In this paper, we study the integrated aircraft and crew schedule recovery problem. A two stage heuristic algorithm for the integrated recovery problem is proposed. In the first stage, the integrated aircraft recovery and flight-rescheduling model with partial crew consideration is built. This model is based on the traditional multi-commodity network model for the aircraft schedule recovery problem. The objective of this model also includes minimization of the original crew connection disruption. In the second stage, the integrated crew schedule recovery and flight re-scheduling model with partial aircraft consideration is built. We proposed a new multi-commodity model for the crew schedule recovery. The main advantage of such model is that it is much more efficient to integrate the flight-scheduling and aircraft consideration. New constraints are incorporated to guarantee that the aircraft connections generated in the stage 1 are still feasible. Two stages are run iteratively until no improvement can be achieved. Experimental results show that our method can provide better recovery solutions compared with the benchmark algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.cie.2015.05.033
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Airline schedule recovery,Airline rescheduling,Disruption management,Heuristic algorithm
Crew,Test algorithm,Heuristic (computer science),Operations research,Minification,Engineering,Operations management,Network model,Disruption management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
87
C
0360-8352
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dong Zhang170.86
Henry Y. K. Lau216431.98
chuhang yu3161.67