An improved multi-objective particle swarm optimizer for air traffic flow network rerouting problem

With the increasing incidence of malfunctions of air transportation system due to severe weather, the Air Traffic Flow Network Rerouting (ATFNR) is playing an important role in improving the global efficiency of air traffic. This paper adopts a multi-objective optimization model to solve the ATFNR problem to make a tradeoff between the total delay costs and the airlines fairness. Meanwhile, a specially-designed algorithm based on multi-objective comprehensive learning particle swarm optimizer (MOCLPSO) under the cooperative co-evolution framework is presented to handle this large scale, multi-objective real-world optimization problem. The empirical studies show that the presented methodology is effective and outperforms an existing approach to ATFNR problem as well as two well-known Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms.