Highlights A ULD sharing model to perform sharing economy in airline industry. The achievement rate to represent likelihood of applicability of ULD dispatch. Combining network technique in OR and binomial distribution in Statistics. Confidence interval estimate and chance constraint techniques used in modeling. An iterative evolutionary process to develop a three stage solution algorithm.
Abstract The skypooling is a free platform for the sharing of unit load devices (ULD), which contributes a new sharing economy by allowing airlines to exchange ULDs and coordinate ULD delivery services. The akypooling aids airlines to match their requirements for the two ULD sharing operations. However, such matching is not always successful. The matching success rate naturally affects skypooling performance and generates a gap between the expected and available numbers of ULDs for the two ULD sharing operations. We design two achievement rates for ULD sharing operations, which represent the likelihood of meeting ULD dispatch requirements in actual operations, as well as devising. We develop a novel ULD sharing model and a solution algorithm to handle the problem. The model is developed by combining the network technique utilized in Operations Research with the binomial distribution utilized in Statistics. The solution algorithm comprises a three-stage iterative evolutionary process. We obtain that the carrier decrease the number of ULDs utilized each week by 7% by the two ULD sharing operations. Different instances exemplifying optimistic, normal, and pessimistic situations are examined to understand the ultimate implications and applications of the new technique for airline operations.
Airline unit load device dispatch and scale in short-term operations involving skypooling – A new sharing economy in airline industry
2021-04-15
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Operations research in the airline industry
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