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https://doi.org/10.3141/2214-13

http://scholar.google.com...ulli&publication_year=2011

Airlines need to pay special attention to flights that may be liable to produce undesired downstream effects if subjected to delay. A mathematical formulation is proposed to identify these critical flights by defining a set of temporal intervals, called time windows, which must be met during the flight execution. The width of the time window is variable because it reflects all known constraints on runway capacities or on congested en route sectors that the flight will go through, or both. The set of optimal time windows that maximizes their overall width was chosen, thus providing airline operators with the largest degree of flexibility to perform their flights. Three possible approaches are presented to compute the utilization of the system capacity. By means of a computational analysis, it is shown that the solution of the time window model is insensitive about the formulation used for the capacity constraints.

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11-3124

English

pp 103-110

2011

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309167284

Print

Figures (4) ; References (18) ; Tables (3)

Air traffic; Air traffic control; Airlines; Airport capacity; Airport operations; Bottlenecks; Flight delays; Mathematical models; Time windows

Airspace congestion; Critical flights; System capacity

Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 17 2011 6:24PM

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