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A robust approach to airport gate assignment with a solution-dependent uncertainty budget

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  • Xu, Liang
  • Zhang, Chao
  • Xiao, Feng
  • Wang, Fan

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Airport gate assignment (AGA) is a critical issue for airport operations management. It aims to assign flights to gates according to their arrival and departure times. To tackle flight delays in airports, we propose a robust airport gate assignment (RAGA) to minimize the (1−α)-quantile of the total real-time overlap between consecutive flights at the same gate, namely, the total gate blockage time, so that the realized total gate blockage time is worse than its quantile with a probability, at most α. Given any constant, we develop an asymptotically tight upper bound for the violation probability that total gate blockage time is worse than the constant. Based on the upper bound, a solution-dependent uncertainty budget is introduced to develop a robust counterpart (RCP) for the RAGA. We further develop a solution technique for the RCP by transforming the problem into a finite number of tractable binary programmings. An empirical study of the Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) indicates that our proposed robust approach for AGA outperforms existing methods.

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  • Xu, Liang & Zhang, Chao & Xiao, Feng & Wang, Fan, 2017. "A robust approach to airport gate assignment with a solution-dependent uncertainty budget," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 458-478.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:105:y:2017:i:c:p:458-478
    DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2017.09.013
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