Improving the objective function of the fleet assignment problem

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 466-475

  Dumas, Jonathan ^a   Aithnard, Fati ^a   Soumis, François ^a  

^a GERAD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airline transport optimization; Fleet assignment; Passenger flow; Revenue estimation

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORTATION;

AIR CANADA; FLEET ASSIGNMENT; FLEET ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PASSENGER FLOWS; PROFIT IMPROVEMENTS; RESOLUTION TIME;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 63649144445     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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