Background and Motivation
- The SEASAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) project predicts a doubling in the number of flights between 2005 and 2020. [Atkin2010]
- 60 articles have been published on the topic of arrival scheduling and planning (Mesgarpour, Potts, and Bennel 2010)
- The total cost of domestic air traffic delays to the S economy was estimated to be about $41 billion in 2007 alone [Lee-MIT]
- The JEC report also stated that 58%, 20%, and 8% of flight delays occurred at the gates, taxiing out to the runway, and taxiing into the gates upon landing, respectively, while only 15% of the total delays were airborne delays
- Airport
- Aircraft
- Separation Rules
- Decision variables
- initial conditions
- virtual nodes
- routing constraints
- taxi timing constraints: speed
- taxi time constraints: conflict
- cost-to-go
- runway scheduling
- departure runway planning foresight
- makespan
- conflict
- total taxi time
- global cost function (fuel costs, emission costs [Levinson, Kanafani, and Gillen 1999], crew and passenger costs)[Clare 2009]