Pre-tactical Time Window assignment: Runway Utilization and the Impact of Uncertainties

Heidt A, Kapolke M, Liers F, Fürstenau N, Helmke H (2014)

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2014

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the SESAR Innovation Days 2014

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the SESAR Innovation Days 2014

Event location: Madrid ES

ISBN: 978-2-87497-077-1

URI: http://www.sesarinnovationdays.eu

Abstract

Efficient planning of runway utilisation is one of the main challenges in Air Traffic Management (ATM). It is important because runway is the combining element between airside and groundside. Furthermore, it is a bottleneck in many cases. However, uncertainty and inaccuracy almost always lead to deviations from the actual plan or schedule. In this paper, we develop an optimization approach for the pre-tactical planning phase that provides some flexibility in the face of small disturbances in the input data, so that we need to change our plans less frequently. Instead of determining arrival/departure times to the minute in this phase yet, we assign several aircraft to the same time slot of a given size. The exact orders within those time windows can be decided later in tactical planning. Mathematically, this leads to a generalised assignment problem on a bipartite graph. We develop an integer program (IP), which can be solved very fast but may provide unnecessary large time buffers, and extend it to a mixed integer program (MIP) that solves the problem to global optimality. We present computational results concerning the abovementioned optimization approach and investigate the impact of disturbances on our deterministic solutions. As a next step, we will incorporate uncertainties directly in our model. Therefore, we analyse real-world data from a large German airport in order to obtain realistic delay distributions and describe a simulation environment to test current and future solution methods.

Authors with CRIS profile

Andreas Heidt Economics - Discrete Optimization - Mathematics (EDOM) Manu Kapolke Professur für Optimization under Uncertainty & Data Analysis Frauke Liers-Bergmann Professur für Optimization under Uncertainty & Data Analysis

Additional Organisation(s)

Economics - Discrete Optimization - Mathematics (EDOM)

Involved external institutions

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) / German Aerospace Center DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Heidt, A., Kapolke, M., Liers, F., Fürstenau, N., & Helmke, H. (2014). Pre-tactical Time Window assignment: Runway Utilization and the Impact of Uncertainties. In Dirk Schaefer, Javier Saez (Eds.), Proceedings of the SESAR Innovation Days 2014..

MLA:

Heidt, Andreas, et al. "Pre-tactical Time Window assignment: Runway Utilization and the Impact of Uncertainties." Proceedings of the SESAR Innovation Days 2014. Ed. Dirk Schaefer, Javier Saez, 2014.

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