Airports must ensure that their operations can efficiently adapt to the emerging needs
considering both the passenger experience and their economic viability. One way to achieve …

Assigning aircrafts to the available gates is an important decision problem that airport
professionals face every day. However, this problem is generally studied by considering …

This article presents a model for the economic value of extra capacity at an airport. The
model is based on a series of functional relationships linking the benefits of extra capacity …

Airports all over the world are becoming busier and many of them are facing capacity
problems. The actual airport capacity strongly depends on the efficiency of the resource …

The airport gate assignment problem (AGAP) has been well studied in the field of airport
transportation planning and operations management. For airport operators, it is important to …

The airport slot allocation procedure relies on a (fixed) capacity to allocate slots to airlines,
which often leads to under/over utilization of slots, depending on how conservative the …

At an international level, interest in airport capacity has been growing in the last few years
because its maximisation ensures best performance of infrastructure. Infrastructure …

At an airport, the flights should be attached to the gates to embark or disembark the
passengers. The airport gate assignment problem concerns the efficient utilization of gates …

The rapid increase in passenger traffic on the one hand and the slow expansion of airport
capacity on the other have over the years limited the airport's capability to maintain …

We consider the assignment of gates to arriving and departing flights at a large hub airport.
This problem is highly complex even in planning stage when all flight arrivals and …