Airport ground workforce planning with hierarchical skills: a new formulation and branch-and-price approach

Lishun Zeng (), Mingyu Zhao () and Yangfan Liu ()
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Lishun Zeng: China Southern Airlines Headquarters
Mingyu Zhao: China Southern Airlines Headquarters
Yangfan Liu: China Southern Airlines Headquarters

Annals of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 275, issue 1, No 12, 245-258

Abstract: Abstract We address the problem of strategic workforce planning for airport ground staff. The goal is to find a minimum workforce mix that satisfies a target coverage rate with respect to a given demand profile. Based on the classical tour scheduling problem, we propose a new formulation with hierarchical skills in which staff with higher level skills is permitted to cover demands of lower levels. A branch-and-price approach is proposed to solve the model. Numerical experiments based on real-world demand data demonstrate that our approach can efficiently produce near-optimal solutions to the model.

Keywords: Tour scheduling; Skills; Branch-and-price; Workforce scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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