Paper Info
Title
An integrated flight scheduling and fleet assignment method based on a discrete choice model.
Abstract
We propose a new integrated flight scheduling and fleet assignment method using the discrete choice model.We extend the model to consider itinerary price elasticity.A heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve models.We simulate a micro-market to evaluate the performance of our method. The airline industry is capital intensive and operates on a thin profit margin. Optimal and flexible flight schedule is essential for airlines to survive in such competitive market. In this study, we focus on the integrated flight scheduling and fleet assignment problem based on a discrete choice model. Two mixed integer programming models are proposed: the first model solves the integrated flight scheduling and fleet assignment problem and the second model further considers the itinerary price elasticity. A heuristic algorithm is also proposed to efficiently solve the second model. In numerical studies, a micro market is simulated to evaluate the performance of our proposed models and algorithms. Experimental results reveal that our models can achieve a significant profit improvement under a reasonable computation time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.cie.2016.05.040
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Flight scheduling,Fleet assignment,Discrete choice model,Integrated scheduling
Mathematical optimization,Fair-share scheduling,Scheduling (computing),Heuristic (computer science),Deadline-monotonic scheduling,Operations research,Integer programming,Assignment problem,Discrete choice,Engineering,Operations management,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
98
C
0360-8352
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dong Zhang110.37
chuhang yu2161.67
Henry Y. K. Lau316431.98