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Precedence Constrained Routing and Helicopter Scheduling: Heuristic Design

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  • M. T. Fiala Timlin

    (Gandalf Mobile Systems, Inc., 2 Gurdwara Road, Suite 500, Nepean, Ontario, K2E 1A2, Canada)

  • W. R. Pulleyblank

    (Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, IBM, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA)

Abstract

Mobil Producing Nigeria has an offshore oil field consisting of approximately 45 platforms. Each day certain platforms must be visited to regulate flow rates and a number of people must be transported between specified pairs of platforms. All transport is performed by helicopter. Mobil wanted to find a route for each daily set of stops that satisfied all the requirements and minimized the total distance flown. We developed two heuristics that produce very good solutions to this problem. The first ignores the problem of helicopter capacity, and the second handles it explicitly. Mobil has cited two benefits of the optimization software: all routing requirements are satisfied, and a significant reduction of total daily flying time has been achieved.

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  • M. T. Fiala Timlin & W. R. Pulleyblank, 1992. "Precedence Constrained Routing and Helicopter Scheduling: Heuristic Design," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 22(3), pages 100-111, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:22:y:1992:i:3:p:100-111
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.22.3.100
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    1. Ertan Yakıcı & Robert F. Dell & Travis Hartman & Connor McLemore, 2018. "Daily aircraft routing for amphibious ready groups," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 264(1), pages 477-498, May.
    2. Naccache, Salma & Côté, Jean-François & Coelho, Leandro C., 2018. "The multi-pickup and delivery problem with time windows," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(1), pages 353-362.
    3. Fernanda Menezes & Oscar Porto & Marcelo L. Reis & Lorenza Moreno & Marcus Poggi de Aragão & Eduardo Uchoa & Hernán Abeledo & Nelci Carvalho do Nascimento, 2010. "Optimizing Helicopter Transport of Oil Rig Crews at Petrobras," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 40(5), pages 408-416, October.
    4. Nikolakopoulos, Athanassios & Sarimveis, Haralambos, 2007. "A threshold accepting heuristic with intense local search for the solution of special instances of the traveling salesman problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 177(3), pages 1911-1929, March.
    5. Qian, Fubin & Gribkovskaia, Irina & Laporte, Gilbert & Halskau sr., Øyvind, 2012. "Passenger and pilot risk minimization in offshore helicopter transportation," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 40(5), pages 584-593.

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