Agent-based modelling and simulation for life-cycle airport flight planning and scheduling

Xiaoyu Ma, Zhou He, Pengfei Yang, Xiyang Liao and Wei Liu

Journal of Simulation, 2024, vol. 18, issue 1, 15-28

Abstract: The airport flight planning and scheduling (AFPS) process involves many sub-systems in airport management, including flight arrival prediction, flight landing prioritisation, flight route scheduling, flight departure prioritisation and airport big-data planning. Existing literature has mainly focused on advancing the efficiency of specific sub-system(s) of AFPS. Therefore, there is a call to investigate the AFPS comprehensively and improve its performance systematically, instead of solely enhancing partial sub-system(s) in an airport. This paper proposes a life cycle analysis (LCA) framework to describe the “life cycle” that how an aircraft interacts with the AFPS system of an airport. The agent-based modelling and simulation technique is used to simulate the AFPS system under the LCA framework by treating each aircraft as a passive agent following the orders from the AFPS system. We demonstrate that the naive first-in-first-out principle can be modified to some simple prioritising rules to significantly reduce the overall delay (including importance-weighted delay) and processing time of flights, as well as to increase the number of departed aircraft. Hence, the produced agent-based model allows us to improve AFPS performance by optimising multiple sub-systems simultaneously.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/17477778.2023.2169643

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