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Estimating Loads of Aircraft in Planning for the Military Airlift Command

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  • Harold K. Rappoport

    (DISTINCT Management Consultants, Inc., 10705 Charter Drive, Suite 440, Columbia, Maryland 21044)

  • Laurence S. Levy

    (DISTINCT Management Consultants, Inc., 10705 Charter Drive, Suite 440, Columbia, Maryland 21044)

  • Bruce L. Golden

    (College of Business and Management, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742)

  • David S. Feshbach

    (DISTINCT Management Consultants, Inc., 10705 Charter Drive, Suite 440, Columbia, Maryland 21044)

Abstract

The Military Airlift Command of the United States Air Force is responsible for evaluating the ability of the air force to move cargo and passengers during contingency situations (“deliberate planning”). This requires that aircraft be assigned to loads and scheduled. While most analyses have addressed aircraft assignment as a plane minimization problem because of constraints on the available airlift capacity, we addressed the problem as an aircraft load maximization problem. Our algorithm seeks to utilize each aircraft more fully. We compare this approach with a previous procedure.

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  • Harold K. Rappoport & Laurence S. Levy & Bruce L. Golden & David S. Feshbach, 1991. "Estimating Loads of Aircraft in Planning for the Military Airlift Command," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 21(4), pages 63-78, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:21:y:1991:i:4:p:63-78
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.21.4.63
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    1. C Guéret & N Jussien & O Lhomme & C Pavageau & C Prins, 2003. "Loading aircraft for military operations," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 54(5), pages 458-465, May.

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