Abstract

Bad weather, mechanical failures, air control, and crew members of the discomfort health are very likely to cause flight delays. If these events occur, decision-makers of airport operation must rediscover the flight schedules through reassigning gates to these flights, delaying flights, and canceling flights. Therefore, it is important to study the recovery strategy with the feasibility and the least cost for delayed flights and to improve the airport operation efficiency. In this paper, a mathematical model of gate reassignment based on the objectives of the loss of passengers, airport operating, and airlines, and the most important index of disturbance value of the gate reassignment for delayed flights is constructed. Then, the genetic algorithm (GA) and ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm are combined in order to propose a two-stage hybrid(GAOTWSH) algorithm, which is used to solve the constructed mathematical model of gate reassignment for delayed flights. The test data from the operations of the one airport is used to simulate and demonstrate the performance of the constructed mathematical model of gate reassignment for irregular flights. The results show that the proposed GAOTWSH algorithm has better optimization performance and the constructed gate reassignment model is feasible and effective. The study provides a new idea and method for irregular flights.

Highlights

  • With the rapid development of air transport, the gates have become one of the bottlenecks of airport resource operation

  • On the premise of ensuring safety and obeying the capacity limitation of the whole airport, a gate reassignment model based on the objectives of the loss of passengers, airport operating, and airlines, and the most important index of disturbance value is constricted and a two stage hybrid algorithm based on Genetic algorithms (GA) and ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is proposed in this paper to solve the constructed gate reassignment model

  • For the flight delays caused by bad weather, mechanical failures, and air control, a gate

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Summary

Introduction

With the rapid development of air transport, the gates have become one of the bottlenecks of airport resource operation. Over the past few decades, a lot of researchers and experts have proposed some methods to solve the problem of flight delays, such as linear programming, genetic algorithm, simulated annealing, particle swarm optimization algorithm, ant colony optimization algorithm, and other algorithms. These methods better solve the gate problem of delayed flights, take on relatively easy implementing and operation, the scheduling efficiency and solving accuracy are too low.

Related Work
Gate Reassignmet Modeling for Delayed Flights
Linearize the Gate Reassignment Model
Two Stages Hybrid Algorithm
The Idea of Two Stages Hybrid Algorithm
The Flow of the Proposed GAOTWSH Algorithm
Experimental Data and Environment
Experimental Results
Result Comparison and Analysis
Methods
Objective
Conclusions and Future Work

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