Title :
Air cargo load planning
Author :
Tian, Chunhua ; Zhang, Hao ; Li, Feng
Author_Institution :
IBM China Res. Lab., Beijing
Abstract :
For a multiple-segment flight of passenger aircraft, air cargo load planning is the trade-off between operation time, mishandling ratio, and load factor. A rule-based optimization approach is adopted by us to model the complex business logic. In the load planning, there are several atomic actions, which is relatively stable and linked together by rule flow. This paper discusses the optimization algorithms behind these actions. The system has been successfully applied in a North American airline company.
Keywords :
aircraft; freight handling; optimisation; planning; travel industry; North American airline company; air cargo load planning; passenger aircraft; rule-based optimization approach; Aircraft propulsion; Automatic logic units; Capacity planning; Companies; Containers; Engines; Fuels; Heuristic algorithms; Process planning; Scheduling algorithm; air cargo; load planning; rule engine; rule flow;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2008. IEEE/SOLI 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2012-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2013-1
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2008.4686610
