The Airline Container Loading Problem with pickup and delivery

Virginie Lurkin and Michaël Schyns

European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 244, issue 3, 955-965

Abstract: This paper considers the loading optimization problem for a set of containers and pallets transported into a cargo aircraft that serves multiple airports. Because of pickup and delivery operations that occur at intermediate airports, this problem is simultaneously a Weight, and Balance Problem and a Sequencing Problem. Our objective is to minimize fuel and handling operation costs. This problem is shown to be NP-hard. We resort to a mixed integer linear program. Based on real-world data from a professional partner (TNT Airways), we perform numerical experiments using a standard B, and C library. This approach yields better solutions than traditional manual planning, which results in substantial cost savings.

Keywords: OR in airlines; Assignment problem; Fuel consumption; Weight and balance; Sequencing problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.02.027

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