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A more realistic approach for airport ground movement optimisation with stand holding. In proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2011), 9-11 August 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, pages 146-160, 2011.
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Airports are already facing several challenges and can expect to face more in the future. Despite the requirements to handle ever increasing numbers of aircraft, they also have to meet environmental targets and regulations. Although physical expansion of the airport could sometimes help, this is rarely possible in practice. The complexity increases the closer an airport has to work to their maximal possible capacity. The complexity of the problem means that advanced decision support systems are needed to guarantee efficient airside airport operations and to mitigate the environmental impact. This research considers the important problem of getting aircraft from source to destination locations (usually either runways or gates/stands) in as efficient a manner as possible, in terms of time or fuel burn. A new sequential graph-based algorithm is introduced for this important part of the airside operations at an airport - usually named the ground movement problem. This algorithm, embedded in a wider operational system, has several advantages over previous approaches for increasing the realism of the modelling and it utilises a recently developed approach to more accurately estimate taxi speeds. Importantly, the taxi time prediction and the ground movement model use the same directed graph representation of the airport. For the experiments in this paper, the algorithm has been configured to absorb as much of the waiting time as possible for departures at the gate/stand, to reduce the fuel burn and the environmental impact. Analysis with data from a European hub airport shows very promising results and gives an indication of both the performance of the system (in comparison to a lower bound on the taxi time) and the limits to the amount of waiting time which could possibly be absorbed as stand hold (without the engines running).
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@INPROCEEDINGS{2011-146-160-P, author = {J. A. D. Atkin and E. K. Burke and S. Ravizza},
title = {A more realistic approach for airport ground movement optimisation with stand holding},
booktitle = {In proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2011), 9-11 August 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, USA},
year = {2011},
editor = {J. Fowler and G. Kendall and B. McCollum},
pages = {146--160},
note = {Paper},
abstract = {Airports are already facing several challenges and can expect to face more in the future. Despite the requirements to handle ever increasing numbers of aircraft, they also have to meet environmental targets and regulations. Although physical expansion of the airport could sometimes help, this is rarely possible in practice. The complexity increases the closer an airport has to work to their maximal possible capacity. The complexity of the problem means that advanced decision support systems are needed to guarantee efficient airside airport operations and to mitigate the environmental impact. This research considers the important problem of getting aircraft from source to destination locations (usually either runways or gates/stands) in as efficient a manner as possible, in terms of time or fuel burn. A new sequential graph-based algorithm is introduced for this important part of the airside operations at an airport - usually named the ground movement problem. This algorithm, embedded in a wider operational system, has several advantages over previous approaches for increasing the realism of the modelling and it utilises a recently developed approach to more accurately estimate taxi speeds. Importantly, the taxi time prediction and the ground movement model use the same directed graph representation of the airport. For the experiments in this paper, the algorithm has been configured to absorb as much of the waiting time as possible for departures at the gate/stand, to reduce the fuel burn and the environmental impact. Analysis with data from a European hub airport shows very promising results and gives an indication of both the performance of the system (in comparison to a lower bound on the taxi time) and the limits to the amount of waiting time which could possibly be absorbed as stand hold (without the engines running).},
owner = {gxk},
timestamp = {2011.08.15},
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