Airline scheduling optimization: literature review and a discussion of modelling methodologies

Y Xu, S Wandelt, X Sun - Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The rapid development of civil aviation over the past decades has not only led to an
increasing competition among airlines, but also the rise of irregularities, with challenges …

Adopting blockchain technology to block less sustainable products' entry in global trade

Y Cao, B Shen - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we examine how the use of blockchain technology deters less sustainable
products' entry (LSPE) in the cross-border supply chains in which the entrant produces less …

Towards efficient airline disruption recovery with reinforcement learning

Y Ding, S Wandelt, G Wu, Y Xu, X Sun - Transportation Research Part E …, 2023 - Elsevier
Disruptions to airline schedules precipitate flight delays/cancellations and significant losses
for airline operations. The goal of the integrated airline recovery problem is to develop an …

A column generation approach for operational flight scheduling and aircraft maintenance routing

X Wen, X Sun, HL Ma, Y Sun - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Aircraft is one of the most expensive resources owned by an airline which should be
properly planned. The aircraft maintenance routing problem (AMRP) generates aircraft …

Airline Network Planning: Mixed-integer non-convex optimization with demand–supply interactions

S Birolini, A Jacquillat, M Cattaneo… - … Research Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Airlines routinely use analytics tools to support flight scheduling, fleet assignment, revenue
management, crew scheduling, and many other operational decisions. However, decision …

Airline crew scheduling with sustainability enhancement by data analytics under circular economy

X Wen, SH Chung, HL Ma, WA Khan - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
As an energy-intensive industry, it is critical for airlines to enhance operation sustainability
under the circular economy. Airline crew pairing problem is to construct job itineraries …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on Modelling Airline Integrated Scheduling Problem: a Review on State-of-the-Art Methodologies

Y Xu - Journal of the Air Transport Research Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Operating on volatile profit margins, it is imperative for the airline industry to utilize its
capacity and resources via sophisticated schedules for efficient operation. While the airline …

Individual scheduling approach for multi-class airline cabin crew with manpower requirement heterogeneity

X Wen, SH Chung, P Ji, JB Sheu - Transportation Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
The cabin crew pairing problem is one of the major challenges faced by airlines.
Traditionally, multi-class cabin crews are scheduled on a team basis separated by aircraft …

Optimal establishments of massive testing programs to combat COVID-19: A perspective of parallel-machine scheduling-location (ScheLoc) problem

Y Li, X Wen, TM Choi, SH Chung - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive testing to identify COVID-19-infected people is crucial in combating COVID-19.
However, from the perspective of facility location problems, many current massive testing …

Optimal unlabeled set partitioning with application to risk-based quarantine policies

J Lin, H Aprahamian, H El-Amine - IISE Transactions, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We consider the problem of partitioning a set of items into unlabeled subsets so as to
optimize an additive objective, ie, the objective function value of a partition is equal to the …