Characterizing Airport Ground Handling as a Multi Flexible Flow Shop
- Felix Mora-Camino
- Oludolapo A. Olanrewaju
- Fabio Luiz Peres Krykhtine
- Diego Alonso-Tabares
Airbus Industries, Blagnac, France, 2Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil · ENAC, Toulouse, France..
- Evento
- XXI SITRAER – Fortaleza, CE, Brasil, 2024
- Volume
- Anais do XXI Simpósio de Transporte Aéreo – SITRAER 2024 · ISBN 978-65-272-1008-5 · DOI 10.29327/xxi-sitraer-2024
- Páginas
- 152–161
- Editora
- Even3 Publicações
- Editores
- Francisco Heber Lacerda de Oliveira, Fabiano Rocha, Giovanna Miceli Ronzani Borille, Evandro José da Silva, Mauro Caetano
Abstract
In this article, airport ground handling is introduced as a complex cooperative multi agent system where many resources, fixed or mobile, are used to ensure the connection between the air and ground transportation modes as well as to support a safe airplane operation. One of the main operational objectives of ground handling management is to avoid delays which may impair the punctuality of air transport operations at airports. An analysis of the ground handling operations over a whole airplane parking area is performed and leads to identify three parallel synchronized flexible flow shops. This allows to formulate three independent flexible flow shop scheduling problems to minimize operations costs related with their mobile ground resources and energy consumption. That allows to take advantage of the resolution methods already developed for this type of problem.
Keywords: Airport; Ground Handling; Flexible Flow Shop; Scheduling; Optimization