Gate Assignment Models with Consideration of Airline Preferences

• Main Authors: Huang,Yao-Wei, 黃耀緯
• Other Authors: Chiou, Yu-Chiun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01305266810673803170

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 運輸與物流管理學系 === 103 === With the trend of the privatization or corporatization of airports worldwide, the role of governments is changed to be a supervisor instead of an operator. Efficient and fair gate assignment is one of key task of airport operation. The core logic of gate assignment originally mainly based on governments’ viewpoints has been gradually changed to value the views and requirements of airlines. Airlines may prefer specific gates because of the location of required facilities, cooperated ground handling service team and fuel consumption conservation, reduction of the number of flight transferring and other related expenses. Based on this, this study develops a gate assignment model to simultaneously minimize the total walking distance of passengers and maximize airline gate preferences. The proposed bi-objective mathematical programming model is then solved by Brand-and-Bound method and Lingo software. To investigate the applicability of the proposed model, a case study on Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is conducted. The traffic demand of peak and off-peak seasons and hours are applied to compare the gate assignment results of various sizes of real demand. The results show the proposed model can solve the comprised and reasonable solutions under various demand scenarios. Additionally, when the preferred gates of airlines are highly overlapped under peak hours, some aircrafts will be assigned to remote gates and non-preferred gates. The utilization ratios of preferred gates are also lower than those of nonpreferred gates as expected, suggesting the reasonability of the assignment results and the applicability of the proposed model.