This paper presents results of a simulation of strategies to incorporate business-driven airline preferences in metering operations. Traffic flow systems that balance demand versus capacity at busy airports assign Controlled Times of Arrival (CTAs) to incoming flights. We evaluate a strategy to assign these CTAs based on user-provided priority lists. The user-provided priority is used to drive a slot swapping algorithm that looks for opportunities to rearrange the order of flights in the CTA queue in a way that decreases delay cost. We quantify potential savings by comparing the queue after swapping with the default first-come-first-served rule. Simulations under a variety of realistic scenarios show that our proposed algorithm could reduce delay costs between 1.3% and 17% relative to a baseline where no swapping is performed. Opportunistic swapping, however, presents challenges when handling equity between carriers. Operational considerations and potential solutions to establish equity are discussed.
Incorporating User Preferences in Time-Based Flow Management Operations
2020-10-11
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