Several authors have introduced mathematical formulations for the airport slot allocation process, and the initial allocation in particular. They mostly replicate the current IATA process, performed on an airport-by- airport basis. However, airports are part of a network. The initial slot allocation should therefore be performed simultaneously at all airports, accounting for flight times to link departures and arrivals. [1] proposes an integer programming formulation to allocate a set of single-day slots on a network of airports. Extending that formulation, this paper additionally models the IATA rule stating that series rather than individual slots are to be allocated. A series of slots includes at least 5 slots at the same time and day-of-the-week, distributed regularly in a season. The objective of the allocation is to minimise airline costs due to the non-allocation of series of slots, their temporal displacement, and the deviation from the requested block or turnaround time for slots of coupled series. Preliminary experiments are based on a network of 152 European airports and consider about 300000 slot requests for seven Fridays of the 2017 summer season. Results quantify the increase of airline costs as a function of congestion. [1] Pellegrini P, Bolic T, Castelli L, Pesenti R, 2017. SOSTA: An effective model for the simultaneous optimisation of airport slot allocation. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 99:34-53.


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    Title :

    An integer programming formulation to allocate series of slots on an airport network



    Publication date :

    2021-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    000



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