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Airport ground workforce planning with hierarchical skills: a new formulation and branch-and-price approach

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  • Lishun Zeng

    (China Southern Airlines Headquarters)

  • Mingyu Zhao

    (China Southern Airlines Headquarters)

  • Yangfan Liu

    (China Southern Airlines Headquarters)

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We address the problem of strategic workforce planning for airport ground staff. The goal is to find a minimum workforce mix that satisfies a target coverage rate with respect to a given demand profile. Based on the classical tour scheduling problem, we propose a new formulation with hierarchical skills in which staff with higher level skills is permitted to cover demands of lower levels. A branch-and-price approach is proposed to solve the model. Numerical experiments based on real-world demand data demonstrate that our approach can efficiently produce near-optimal solutions to the model.

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  • Lishun Zeng & Mingyu Zhao & Yangfan Liu, 2019. "Airport ground workforce planning with hierarchical skills: a new formulation and branch-and-price approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 275(1), pages 245-258, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:275:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1007_s10479-017-2624-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10479-017-2624-y
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