Airline Fleet Assignment with Enhanced Revenue Modeling
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Barnhart, Cynthia; Farahat, Amr; Lohatepanont, Manoj
署名单位：
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Cornell University; Chulalongkorn University
刊物名称：
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ISSN/ISSBN：
0030-364X
DOI：
10.1287/opre.1070.0503
发表日期：
2009
页码：
231-244
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摘要：
The airline fleet assignment problem addresses the question of how to best assign aircraft fleet types to scheduled flight legs. This paper presents the subnetwork fleet assignment model: a model that employs composite decision variables representing the simultaneous assignment of fleet types to subnetworks of one or more flight legs. The formulation is motivated by the need to better model the revenue side of the objective function. We present a solution method designed to balance revenue approximation and model tractability. Computational results suggest that the approach yields profit improvements over comparable models and that it is computationally tractable for problems of practical size.