Scheduling baggage-handling facilities in congested airports

Ahmed Abdelghany, Khaled Abdelghany and Ram Narasimhan

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2006, vol. 12, issue 2, 76-81

Abstract: A model for scheduling baggage-handling facilities in congested airports is presented. The model assigns the baggage of departing flights to available piers in the baggage-handling facility. It adopts an activity selection algorithm that is generally used to assign limited infrastructure resources to a number of prescheduled competing activities. The model considers various operational requirements associated with the baggage-handling process. The model is applied to a daily schedule of a major US air-carrier at one of its major hubs. The results illustrate the need to consider trade-offs between satisfying the different operation requirements and achieving a near-optimal solution to the problem.

Keywords: Airport operations; Facility management; Baggage handling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2005.10.001

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