A branch-and-price approach for operational aircraft maintenance routing

被引:80
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作者
Sarac, Abdulkadir
Batta, Rajan
Rump, Christopher M.
机构
[1] Curbell Inc, Orchard Pk, NY 14127 USA
[2] SUNY Buffalo, Dept Ind Engn, Buffalo, NY 14260 USA
[3] Bowling Green State Univ, Coll Business Adm, Dept Appl Stat & Operat Res, Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA
关键词
OR in airlines; logistics; large-scale optimization;
D O I
10.1016/j.ejor.2004.10.033
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
In recent years, considerable effort in the field of operations research has been paid to optimizing airline operations, including the logistics of an airline's fleet of aircraft. We focus on the problem of aircraft routing, which involves generating and selecting a particular route for each aircraft of a sub-fleet that is already assigned to a set of feasible sequences of flight legs. Similar studies typically focus on long-term route planning. However, stochastic events such as severe weather changes, equipment failures, variable maintenance times, or even new regulations mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) play havoc on these long-term plans. In addition, these long-term plans ignore detailed maintenance requirements by considering only one or two of the primary maintenance checks that must be performed on a regular, long-term basis. As a result, these plans are often ignored by personnel in airline operations who are forced on a daily basis to develop quick, ad hoc methods to address these maintenance requirements and other irregular events. To address this problem, we develop an operational aircraft maintenance routing problem formulation that includes maintenance resource availability constraints. We propose a branch-and-price algorithm for solving this problem, which, due to the resource constraints, entails a modification of the branch-on, follow-on branching rule typically used for solving similar problems. Through computational testing, we explore the efficiency of this solution approach under a combination of heuristic choices for column (route) generation and selection. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:1850 / 1869
页数:20
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