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Scheduling the Operation Desert Storm Airlift: An Advanced Automated Scheduling Support System

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  • Michael R. Hilliard

    (Center for Transportation Analysis, ORNL PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6270)

  • Rajendra S. Solanki

    (Center for Transportation Analysis, ORNL PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6270)

  • Cheng Liu

    (Center for Transportation Analysis, ORNL PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6270)

  • Ingrid K. Busch

    (Center for Transportation Analysis, ORNL PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6270)

  • Glen Harrison

    (Center for Transportation Analysis, ORNL PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6270)

  • Ronald D. Kraemer

    (Hazardous Waste Remedial Actions Program, PO Box 2003, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-7606)

Abstract

A typical airlift mission carrying troops and cargo to the Persian Gulf required a three-day round-trip, visited seven or more different airfields, burned almost one million pounds of fuel, and cost $280,000. During Operation Desert Storm, the Military Airlift Command (MAC) averaged more than 100 such missions daily as it managed the largest airlift in history. By August 7, 1991, more than 25,000 missions had moved more than 966,000 passengers and 774,000 tons of cargo to and from the Persian Gulf region. Each mission required scheduling aircraft, crew, and mission support resources to maximize the on-time delivery of cargo and passengers. To meet this challenge, MAC worked with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop and deploy the Airlift Deployment Analysis System (ADANS). Within three months, ADANS provided a set of decision support tools to manage information on cargo and passengers to be moved and the available resources, as well as tools to schedule missions, to analyze the schedule, and to distribute the schedule to MAC's worldwide command and control system.

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  • Michael R. Hilliard & Rajendra S. Solanki & Cheng Liu & Ingrid K. Busch & Glen Harrison & Ronald D. Kraemer, 1992. "Scheduling the Operation Desert Storm Airlift: An Advanced Automated Scheduling Support System," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 22(1), pages 131-146, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:22:y:1992:i:1:p:131-146
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.22.1.131
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