Methods for Operations Planning in Airport Decision Support Systems

  • Authors:
  • Jesús García Herrero;Antonio Berlanga;José M. Molina;José R. Casar

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Informática, E.P.S. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Colmenarejo, Spain 28270;Departamento de Informática, E.P.S. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Colmenarejo, Spain 28270;Departamento de Informática, E.P.S. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Colmenarejo, Spain 28270;Dpto. Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones, E.T.S.I.T. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 28040

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Simulation and decision support tools can help airport ground controllers to improve surface operations and safety, leading to enhancements in the process of traffic flow management. In this paper, two planning approaches for automatically finding the best routes and sequences for demanded operations are proposed and analyzed. These approaches are integrated into a general decision support system architecture. The problem addressed is the global management of departure operations, moving aircraft along airport taxiways between gate positions and runways. Two global optimization approaches have been developed together with a suitable problem representation: a modified time-space flow algorithm and a genetic algorithm, both aimed at minimizing the total ground delay. The capability and performance of these planning techniques have been illustrated on simulated samples of ground operations at Madrid Barajas International Airport.