Abstract
In this study, an algorithm for reliability evaluation is proposed in order to assess the discount policy based on its effect on an air transport network. An air transport network is a typical stochastic air transport network (SATN) because its capacity (available seats) is regarded as stochastic. Under different discount policies, the term “reliability” refers to the ability to meet a certain travel demand within a limited budget. To better describe the flow of SATN, the methods of the sum of disjoint products and minimal paths are combined in the proposed algorithm. A reliability analysis is conducted at ranges of budgets and travel demands for a more accurate assessment. The outcomes of this study help the travel agents assess and select an appropriate discount policy, which is one of the important contributions. This study also contributes to enhancing the reliability fluctuation under the impact of multiple discount policies.
Highlights
An air transport network is more and more popular and becomes one of the crucial factors that reflects the capacity of travel agents to compete in the tourism industry [1,2]
Given the stochastic air transport network (SATN) H ≡ (A, W, M, C), travel demand E, transit time θ, limited budget B with the set of quantity discount rates G, the origin o, and the destination d, the main algorithm is proposed for reliability evaluation as follows
This paper focuses on reliability evaluation for an air transport network and uses it as a base to assess the impact of different discount policies
Summary
An air transport network is more and more popular and becomes one of the crucial factors that reflects the capacity of travel agents (tour operators) to compete in the tourism industry [1,2]. The travel agents rely heavily on air transport networks to handle the transportation tasks. An air transport network can be formed as a directed graph consisting of a set of edges denoting an airport and a set of vertices representing a flight [3,4]. A flight is operated with a limited number of seats and booked by several individuals, travel agents, and other organizations. The capacity (i.e., available seats) can be regarded as stochastic quantity [5]. The term “a stochastic air transport network (SATN)” refers to an air transport network
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