Combining column generation and constraint programming to solve the tail assignment problem

Sami Gabteni and Mattias Grönkvist ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2009, vol. 171, issue 1, 76 pages

Abstract: Within the area of short term airline operational planning, Tail Assignment is the problem of assigning flight legs to individual identified aircraft while satisfying all operational constraints, and optimizing some objective function. In this article, we propose that Tail Assignment should be solved as part of both the short and the long term airline planning. We further present a hybrid column generation and constraint programming solution approach. This approach can be used to quickly produce solutions for operations management, and also to produce close-to-optimal solutions for long and mid term planning scenarios. We present computational results which illustrate the practical usefulness of the approach. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009

Keywords: Airline operational planning; Tail assignment; Fleet planning; Column generation; Constraint programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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