Dynamic gate configurations at airports: A network optimization approach

Thomas Hagspihl, Rainer Kolisch, Christian Ruf and Sebastian Schiffels

European Journal of Operational Research, 2022, vol. 301, issue 3, 1133-1148

Abstract: We consider the configuration of airport gates with passenger boarding bridges. The set of aircraft types that can be serviced at a gate depends on the installed boarding bridge(s). For instance, the Airbus A380 can only be serviced at gates equipped with a passenger boarding bridge that is able to access its upper level. Given the dynamic development of both the number of aircraft movements and the fleet mix at airports, the recurring decision problem is to determine for each gate whether and when the passenger boarding bridge configuration should be changed. The objective is to minimize investment and operating costs associated with the bridges as well as penalty costs for aircraft which cannot be processed because gates that are equipped with adequate gate configurations are not available. We propose a mixed-integer model formulation and present its underlying network structure. To solve the problem, we employ a column generation based heuristic approach. We demonstrate the good performance of the heuristic in a computational study and present a detailed discussion of the decisions taken as part of a case study.

Keywords: Transportation; Airport gate configuration; Integer programming; Column generation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037722172101033X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:301:y:2022:i:3:p:1133-1148

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.12.016

Access Statistics for this article

European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati

More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().