Optimal flight-to-gate assignment for Bangkok International Airport | |
| Author | Doungporn Thatree |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CM-04-17 |
| Subject(s) | Flight Bangkok International Airport Airlines--Thailand--Bangkok--Management |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Civil Engineering |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. CM-04-17 |
| Abstract | Flight-to-gate assignment is considered to be the one of the most important tasks in airport ground operation since it relates three components of air transportation, which are passengers, airlines and airport, together. Therefore, the optimal flight-to-gate assignment should satisfy the needs of all these components. At present flight-to-gate assignment of Bangkok International Airport (BIA) is performed by judgment of airport authority personnel coupled with a computer program, Terminal Management System (TMS). However, the obtained results are not optimal in terms of passengers' time used within the airport, baggage handling time, airline operating cost, and facility utilization. Besides, flight delay, which usually occurs in real-time operation and is the major cause of changes to flight schedule, is not considered in the flight assignment. As a result, the reassignment becomes worse. To overcome these difficulties, this study develops a flight-to-gate assignment optimization model which carefully addresses the important issues that should be considered in the flight assignment for BIA. The proposed model consists of two main modules, which are the flight-delay simulation module and the flight-to-gate assignment optimization module. In the first module, flight delays are simulated by Monte Carlo techniques in order to create real-time flight schedule to be used as an input for the optimization model. In the second module, flight-to-gate assignment is optimized by an integer linear programming according to the concerned objective function. The obtained results are validated by the comparisons with the actual gate assignment of BIA. The validation results show that model can perform well in terms of real-time simulation as well as optimization. |
| Year | 2004 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. CM-04-17 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Civil Engineering |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Pannapa Herabat.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Ogunlana, Stephen 0.;Yordphol Tanaboriboon; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Royal Thai Government (H.M.King); |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2004 |