Airport runway scheduling

Coordination of scheduling decisions in the management of airport airspace and taxiway operations

“…As far as the performance indicators of a schedule are concerned, Bennell et al (2011) list a number of indicators that are of interest M. Samà et al / Transportation Research Procedia 00 (2016) 000-000 5 for different stakeholders. Among those that are desirable from an Air Traffic Control (ATC) perspective they cite the maximization of the Runway Throughput (RT) and the minimization of: the Approach Time (AT) of aircraft, the Air Traffic Controllers' Workload (ATCW), the aircraft Taxi Time (TT), the arrival/departure delay.…”

“…The ASP consists of scheduling aircraft from the border of the TCA until the gate and vice versa, by integrating taxiway, landing and take-off scheduling into a single optimization model. We consider the gate assignment problem as solved beforehand, and formulate the overall scheduling problem as a job shop scheduling problem with additional constraints, following a successful stream of research described in Bennell et al (2011). Along this stream of research, optimization models tend to incorporate an increasing number of details of the practical problem that affect the feasibility of the solutions.…”

Scheduling Aircraft Take-Offs and Landings on Interdependent and Heterogeneous Runways

“…Briskorn and Stolletz (2014) prove that, under these assumptions, the ASP is polynomial in the number of runway operations but exponential in the number of runways and operation classes by defining an exact DP with a polynomial state space. Bennell et al (2013) provide an extensive literature overview on airport runway operations, featuring articles up to 2009. Section 2.1 reviews models for the ASP that consider heterogeneous or interdependent runways.…”

“…In addition, we review recent papers (from 2010 to 2015) on the less general problem with single or independent runways that were not covered in the survey of Bennell et al (2013). An overview of these papers is given in Table 3.…”

Scheduling aircraft take-offs and landings on interdependent and heterogeneous runways

“…This area has a radius of up to 40 nautical miles and is controlled by ''Terminal Radar Approach Control" (TRACON) (Bennell et al, 2013). We assume to have precise and reliable data on the aircraft on the airport's airfield and in the E-TMA, that is, we have a static and deterministic problem setting.…”