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Trans. Planning Journal
| Title | Fleet Routing and Flight Scheduling during Buffer Period between Seasons |
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| Author | Shangyao Yan & Tsai-Swey Won |
| Summary | Airlines usually have to design more than one season’s flight timetable in one year. As one season’s flight timetable is transferred to the other one, it is usually not easy to smoothly connect two timetables due to significant difference between them. In particular, related constraints must be satisfied in the transition. In this research, we propose a time-space network model based on a buffer period to connect two different season’s flight timetables. The model is expected to be an effective planning tool that can assist the carrier in flight scheduling and fleet routing during the transition of two connected seasons. We first use the CPLEX package to solve for fleet routing and flight scheduling. Then, we develop a flow decomposition algorithm to trace each aircraft route during the buffer period. To demonstrate the application of the model to the real word, we perform a case study concerning the operation of a major Taiwan Airline in East Asia. |
| Vol. | 30 |
| No. | 4 |
| Page | 891 |
| Year | 2001 |
| Month | 12 |
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