Integrating Slot Exchange, Safety, Capacity, and Equity Mechanisms Within an Airspace Flow Program

Hanif D. Sherali (), Justin M. Hill (), Michael V. McCrea () and Antonio A. Trani ()
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Hanif D. Sherali: Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Justin M. Hill: U.S. Air Force Studies and Analyses, Assessments, and Lessons Learned, Washington, DC 20330
Michael V. McCrea: United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania 17013
Antonio A. Trani: Charles Edward Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061

Transportation Science, 2011, vol. 45, issue 2, 271-284

Abstract: In this paper, we study an airspace flow program in the context of weather-related disruptions by augmenting the airspace planning and collaborative decision-making model (APCDM). The proposed model selects among alternative flight plans for the affected flights while integrating slot exchange mechanisms induced by multiple ground delay programs (GDPs) to permit airlines to improve flight efficiencies through a mediated bartering of assigned slots, and simultaneously considering issues related to sector workloads and airspace conflicts, as well as overall equity concerns among the involved airlines in regard to accepted slot trades and flight plans. The APCDM is enhanced to include (a) the selection of slot exchange trade offers suggested by the airlines based on their allotted slots under a GDP; (b) connections between continuing flights; and (c) several alternative equity concepts. Both full and light versions of this model are developed and tested using realistic data derived from the enhanced traffic management system data provided by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Keywords: airspace flow program; ground delay program; collaborative decision making; mediated bartering; slot exchanges; airline equity; air traffic management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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