Fair Cyclic Roster Planning—A Case Study for a Large European Airport

Torsten Fahle () and Wolfgang Vermöhlen ()
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Torsten Fahle: INFORM GmbH
Wolfgang Vermöhlen: INFORM GmbH

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2014, 2016, pp 129-135 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Airport ground staff scheduling has been long known as one of the most challenging and successful application of operations research. In this presentation, we will concentrate on one type of rostering known as cyclic roster. Numerous aspects required in practice have to be taken into account, amongst others crew qualification, work locations and the travel time between each location, government regulations and labor agreements, etc. INFORM’s branch-and-price solution approach covers all of these aspects and is in use on many airports world-wide. Cyclic Rosters cover several fairness aspects by construction. In this case study we will discuss why one of our customers wanted to add additional fairness criteria to the roster. We show which new fairness requirements are needed. We present a fast local search post-processing step that transforms a cost optimal shift plan into a fair cyclic shift plan with the same costs. The transformed plans are highly accepted and are in operational use.

Keywords: Cyclic Roster; Large European Airport; World-wide Airport; Crew Qualification; Fairness Aspects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28697-6_19

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