The analysis of the passenger spill data is an integral part for the determination of optimal aircraft capacities in the airline fleet assignment process. Most research in this study has assumed that the nominal demand is normally distributed. But empirical evidences show that normal probability distribution is not suitable in many cases because of asymmetry nature of the data. In the present s...

In this paper we examine five different strategies for limiting the local search neighborhoods in the context of vehicle routing problems. The vehicle routing problem deals with the assignment of a set of transportation orders to a fleet of vehicles, and the sequencing of stops for each vehicle to minimize transportation costs. The examined strategies are applied to four standard neighborhoods ...

With the development and maturity of autonomous driving technology, parcel terminal distribution has taken lead as an application scenario for unmanned delivery vehicles that autonomously perform task delivering packages between centres customers. The traditional model faces challenges such high costs, low efficiency time conflicts customer convenience. Considering multiple demands parcels deli...

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) involves the design of a set of minimum cost vehicle routes, originating and terminating at a central depot, for a fleet of vehicles that services a set of customers with known demands. This study contains some information about Logistics and Supply Chain Management. In the second part Distribution Management, which is a more related subject with Vehicle Routin...

This thesis addresses the decentralized task assignment problem in cooperative autonomous search and track missions by presenting the Consensus-Based class of assignment algorithms. These algorithm make use of information consensus routines to converge on the assignment rather than the situational awareness of the fleet. A market-based approach is used as the mechanism for task selection, while...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) harness advanced communications and computation technologies in order to make transportation systems more efficient. This work is concerned with the application of ITS to commercial vehicle operations and freight mobility; it identifies and investigates potential uses of real-time information for the efficient management of carrier operations. In trucklo...

The purpose of the National Airspace System Strategy Simulator is to provide the FAA with a decision support system to evaluate long-term infrastructure and regulatory strategies. The NAS strategy simulator consists of several modules representing the different entities within the NAS embedded in a system dynamics framework. The MIT Airline Scheduling Module is the module within the NAS Strateg...

Due to the propensity of fleet incidents, poor organisational survey results and a lack of fleet safety systems, it was evident that Redland City Council were underperforming, experiencing a variety of work related road safety issues and possessed a low fleet safety culture. As a result of an audit process, and the identification of gaps in organisational process within the fleet safety area Re...