Pre-tactical optimization of runway utilization under uncertainty
Kapolke M, Fürstenau N, Heidt A, Liers F, Mittendorf M, Weiß C (2016)
Publication Type: Journal article, Online publication
Publication year: 2016
Journal
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.02.004
Abstract
Efficient planning of runway utilization 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. In this paper, we develop a specific optimization approach for the pre-tactical planning phase that reduces complexity by omitting unnecessary information. Instead of determining arrival/departure times to the minute in this phase yet, we assign several aircraft to the same time window of a given size. The exact orders within those time windows can be decided later in tactical planning. Mathematically, we solve a generalized assignment problem on a bipartite graph. To know how many aircraft can be assigned to one time window, we consider separation requirements for consecutive aircraft types. In reality, however, uncertainty and inaccuracy almost always lead to deviations from the actual plan or schedule. Thus, we present approaches to incorporate uncertainty directly in our model in order to achieve a stabilization with respect to changes in the data. Namely, we use techniques from robust optimization and stochastic optimization. Further, we analyze real-world data from a large German airport to obtain realistic delay distributions, which turn out to be two-parametric Γ-distributions. Finally, we describe a simulation environment to test our new solution methods.
Authors with CRIS profile
Manu Kapolke
Economics - Discrete Optimization - Mathematics (EDOM)
Andreas Heidt
Economics - Discrete Optimization - Mathematics (EDOM)
Frauke Liers-Bergmann
Professur für Optimization under Uncertainty & Data Analysis
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Germany (DE)How to cite
APA:
Kapolke, M., Fürstenau, N., Heidt, A., Liers, F., Mittendorf, M., & Weiß, C. (2016). Pre-tactical optimization of runway utilization under uncertainty. Journal of Air Transport Management. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.02.004
MLA:
Kapolke, Manu, et al. "Pre-tactical optimization of runway utilization under uncertainty." Journal of Air Transport Management (2016).
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