SIMMOD Based Simulation Optimization of Flight Delay Cost for Multi-airport System

Author

Gao, Wei ; Xu, Xiaohao ; Diao, Lin ; Ding, Hongjun

Author_Institution

Coll. of Civil Aviation, Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Univ. of Nanjing, Nanjing

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

698

Lastpage

702

Abstract

Air traffic delay is a critical and expensive problem for multi-airport systems. One strategy for reducing total delay cost is to optimize the flight schedule. The SIMMOD software developed by FAA can be used to build simulation model for the multi-airport system. Based on the restricted SPSA optimization algorithm and the theory of multi-level programming model, an area multi-airport system simulation optimization model and algorithm was proposed. This model and algorithm take the importance of related route network nodes and the expected value of optimization results into account. The simulation optimization results of the PRD region multi-airport system verified the effectiveness of the model and algorithm.

Keywords

airports; digital simulation; mathematical programming; scheduling; Pearl River Delta region; SIMMOD software; air traffic delay; area multiairport system simulation optimization model; flight delay cost; flight scheduling; multilevel programming model; restricted SPSA optimization algorithm; Aerospace simulation; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Cost function; Delay; Optimization methods; Packaging; Rivers; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA), 2008 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3357-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICTA.2008.46

Filename

4659577