A Collaborative Traffic Optimization Strategy to Maximize Airline’s Net Income in Single-Aerodrome Terminal Airspace

Abstract:

Due to the impact of capacity change on traffic flow in single-aerodrome terminal airspace, a strategy to balance traffic flow and capacity in single-aerodrome terminal airspace is studied by introducing the idea of collaborative decision making and law of economics. First, considering factors such as airline’s gross income, operation cost and delay cost, an optimization model based on traffic flow to maximize total airline’s net income is established, and constraints including capacity of single-aerodrome terminal airspace are imposed as well. Then, a genetic algorithm to optimize the above model is proposed and realized. Traffic flow and capacity in single-aerodrome terminal airspace can be balanced by using the proposed strategy, while the total airline’s net income is increased at the same time.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 713-715)
• Pages: 1487-1490
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.713-715.1487
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Zheng Xiang*, Yu Tang, Feng Kang
• Keywords: Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM), Airline’s Net Income, Collaborative Decision Making (CDM), Ground Delay Program (GDP)

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