Passenger Flow Model for Airline Networks

Jonathan Dumas () and François Soumis ()
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Jonathan Dumas: GERAD and Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3A7
François Soumis: GERAD and Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3A7

Transportation Science, 2008, vol. 42, issue 2, 197-207

Abstract: We present a model that rapidly finds an approximation of the expected passenger flow on an airline network, given forecast data concerning (1) the distribution of the demand for each itinerary, seen as a random variable; (2) the time distribution of booking requests for each itinerary; and (3) the proportion of spill (from an itinerary) that is attracted to a given alternative itinerary. Solutions are found in a few seconds for a 30,000 itinerary network. Results differ from the expected passenger flow found by a simulation by about 0.1% for load factors below 80%.

Keywords: airline transportation; passenger flow; spill; recapture; equilibrium model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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