Evolutionary multi-objective route and fleet assignment optimisation for regular and non-regular flights. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Takadama, Keiki; Jinba, Takahiro; Harada, Tomohiro; Sato, Hiroyuki
• Is Part Of: International journal of automation and logistics. Volume 2:Number 1/2(2016)
• Page Start: 122
• Page End: 152
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: multi-objective optimisation -- regular flights -- non-regular flights -- flight optimisation -- evolutionary algorithms -- fleet assignment problem -- FAP -- flight scheduling -- Japan -- domestic airports -- simulation -- flight networks -- on-peak months -- off-peak months -- airlines; Automation -- Periodicals; Logistics -- Periodicals; Logistics -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 658.514
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2049-6745

Abstract

To optimise the flight schedule that consists of: 1) the regular flight operated on the same day and time through one year; 2) the non-regular flight operated on the different day and time according to month, this paper proposes the new multi-objective fleet assignment method that considers both the regular and non-regular flights. To investigate the effectiveness of our method, this paper applies it to Japanese domestic airport network optimisation for two months, on- and off-peak months, using a real-world data. The intensive simulation have revealed that the following implications: 1) our method can evolve a flight network that can be applied into the on- and off-peak month; 2) our method can find a flight network that has a well-balanced profit between on- and off-peak months; 3) in peak month, our method can find a flight network that has higher profit.