Abstract
This paper presents a short contribution in air transportation, specifically in scheduling aircraft (plane) landings at Leopol Sedar Senghor (LSS) airport of Dakar. The safety of air navigation of LSS is managed by ASECNA: Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar. Scheduling aircraft landing is the problem of deciding a landing time on an appropriate runway for each aircraft in a given set of aircraft such that each aircraft lands within a predetermined time window. The separation criteria between the landing of an aircraft, and the landing of all successive aircraft, are respected. Our objective is to minimize the cost of deviation from the target times. We present a mixed-integer 0 - 1 formulation for the single runway case. Numerical experiments and comparisons based on real datasets of LSS airport are presented.
Highlights
The domain of air navigation is rich in optimization problems
Scheduling aircraft landing is the problem of deciding a landing time on an appropriate runway for each aircraft in a given set of aircraft such that each aircraft lands within a predetermined time window
It is shown how optimization tools are suited for ASECNA controllers, compared with their actual existing solution techniques based on a radar and formulation of system aurocatx
Summary
The domain of air navigation is rich in optimization problems. (ASECNA) was founded in 1959. We study the problem of efficiently scheduling the landing times of aircraft at the Léopol Sédar Senghor (LSS) airport in Dakar. It is a multinational organization, created by 16 African countries, 14 from Western and Central Africa, plus Madagascar, and France (see Figure 1). In addition of its mission of ensuring the safety of air navigation, the Agency provides meteorological services necessary for operations of air navigation. ASECNA manages an area of more than 16 million square kilometers characterized by a weak network of altitude measuring stations
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