Airport Gate Scheduling for Passengers, Aircraft, and Operation

Sang-Hyun Kim (1) , Eric Féron (1) , John-Paul Clarke (1) , Aude Marzuoli (2) , Daniel Delahaye (3)

1 Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta]
2 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
3 MAIAA - ENAC - Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Informatique et Automatique pour l'Aérien

Passengers' experience is becoming a key metric to evaluate the air transportation system's performance. Efficient and robust tools to handle airport operations are needed along with a better understanding of passengers' interests and concerns. Among various airport operations, this paper studies airport gate scheduling for improved passengers' experience. Three objectives accounting for passengers, aircraft, and operation are presented. Trade-offs between these objectives are analyzed, and a balancing objective function is proposed. The results show that the balanced objective can improve the efficiency of traffic flow in passenger terminals and on ramps, as well as the robustness of gate operations.

Mots clés: airport gate assignment; ramp operation; passengers’ experience; optimization

Domaines: Optimisation et contrôle [math.OC]

Sang-Hyun Kim, Eric Féron, John-Paul Clarke, Aude Marzuoli, Daniel Delahaye. Airport Gate Scheduling for Passengers, Aircraft, and Operation. ATM 2013, 10th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, Jun 2013, Chicago, IL, United States. ⟨hal-01293553⟩