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Scheduling Aircraft Landings—The Static Case

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  • J. E. Beasley

    (The Management School, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, England)

  • M. Krishnamoorthy

    (CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Private Bag No. 10, Clayton South MDC, VIC 3169, Australia)

  • Y. M. Sharaiha

    (The Management School, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, England)

  • D. Abramson

    (Department of Digital Systems, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3169, Australia)

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling aircraft (plane) landings at an airport. This problem is one of deciding a landing time for each plane such that each plane lands within a predetermined time window and that separation criteria between the landing of a plane and the landing of all successive planes are respected. We present a mixed-integer zero–one formulation of the problem for the single runway case and extend it to the multiple runway case. We strengthen the linear programming relaxations of these formulations by introducing additional constraints. Throughout, we discuss how our formulations can be used to model a number of issues (choice of objective function, precedence restrictions, restricting the number of landings in a given time period, runway workload balancing) commonly encountered in practice. The problem is solved optimally using linear programming-based tree search. We also present an effective heuristic algorithm for the problem. Computational results for both the heuristic and the optimal algorithm are presented for a number of test problems involving up to 50 planes and four runways.

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  • J. E. Beasley & M. Krishnamoorthy & Y. M. Sharaiha & D. Abramson, 2000. "Scheduling Aircraft Landings—The Static Case," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 34(2), pages 180-197, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:34:y:2000:i:2:p:180-197
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.34.2.180.12302
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