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Ivanov, Nikola , Netjasov, Fedja , Jovanović, Radosav , Starita, Stefano and Strauss, Arne (2017) Air traffic flow management slot allocation to minimize propagated delay and improve airport slot adherence. Transportation Research Part A : Policy and Practice, 95 . pp. 183-197. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2016.11.010 ISSN 0965-8564.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.11.010
Abstract
In Europe, one of the instruments at the Network Manager’s (NM) disposal to tackle demand-capacity imbalance is to impose ground, i.e. Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM), delays to flights. To compensate for anticipated delays and improve on-time performance, Aircraft Operators usually embed a buffer time in their schedules. The current practice for allocating ATFM delays does not take into account if flights have any remaining schedule buffer to absorb ATFM delay and reduce delay propagation to subsequent flights. Furthermore, the policy presently employed is to minimize ATFM delays, an order of magnitude of half a minute per flight, while propagated delays are approximately ten times higher. In this paper, we explore the possibility to control ATFM delay distribution in a way so as to minimize delay propagated to subsequent flights, but also to increase flights’ adherence to airport slots at coordinated airports. To this aim, we propose a two-level mixed-integer optimization model to solve en-route demand-capacity imbalance problem and further improve airport slot adherence. The rationales behind the research are drawn from practical experience, while the model proposed is compatible with the one currently being used by the NM, making it easy to implement. We test the model on two real-world case studies and conduct ex post analysis to test the effects of violation of model assumptions on results. The results show that it is possible to use the proposed methodology to lower delay propagated to subsequent flights and at the same time to improve airport slot adherence. In addition, they suggest that the current regulatory settings aiming to minimize ATFM delay minutes, as well as operational implementation thereof, are neither necessarily fully aligned with the desires and operating goals of Aircraft Operators, nor they improve the predictability of operations in the network.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Airport slot allocation -- Mathematical models -- Europe, Airlines -- Timetables -- Europe, Air traffic control -- Europe, Flight delays -- Europe, Transportation -- Research -- Europe, Aircraft industry -- Europe | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Transportation Research Part A : Policy and Practice | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0965-8564 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | January 2017 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 95 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 183-197 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.tra.2016.11.010 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 November 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 November 2016 | ||||||||||
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