Control and optimization algorithms for air transportation systems

Control and optimization algorithms for air transportation systems

Modern air transportation systems are complex cyber-physical networks that are critical to global travel and commerce. As the demand for air transport has grown, so have congestion, flight delays, and the resultant environmental impacts. With further growth in demand expected, we need new control techniques, and perhaps even redesign of some parts of the system, in order to prevent cascading de...

Genetic algorithms for coordinated scheduling of production and air transportation

A main issue in supply chain management is coordinating production and distribution decisions. To achieve effective logistics scheduling, it is critical to integrate these two functions and plan them in a coordinated way. The problem is to determine both production schedule and air transportation allocation of orders to optimize customer service at minimum total cost. In order to solve the give...

Air Transportation : Irregular Operations and Control

Coupled Vehicle Design and Network Flow Optimization for Air Transportation Systems

1 Abstract Traditionally, the design of a transportation system has focused on either vehicle design or the network flow, assuming the other as given. However, to define a system level architecture for a transportation system, it is advantageous to expand the system boundary during the design process to include the network routing, the vehicle specifications, and the operations, which couple th...

Path-Planning Algorithms for Public Transportation Systems

Computing travel plans for desired trips in public transportation systems is not exactly the same as finding a shortest driving path in a given area. Path planning in the context of public transportation systems must consider the route constraint that public vehicles serve on particular paths and that passengers cannot order the drivers to change the bus routes. Explicit representation of the r...