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The impact of infrastructure-related taxes and fees on airline fares in the US and the European Union
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The purpose of this thesis is to estimate the impact of infrastructure-related add-on taxes and fees on the direct cost of air travel in the United States and the European Union. Its scope includes domestic travel in the ...
Minimizing airline passenger delay through integrated flight scheduling and aircraft routing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Statistics show that airline flight delays and cancellations have increased continuously over the period from 1995 to 2000. During the same period, customer dissatisfaction and complaints have followed a similar, even more ...
Robust optimization for network-based resource allocation problems under uncertainty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
We consider large-scale, network-based, resource allocation problems under uncertainty, with specific focus on the class of problems referred to as multi-commodity flow problems with time-windows. These problems are at the ...
A profit maximization model in a two-echelon supply chain management : distribution and pricing strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Distribution and pricing strategies play a central role in the field of supply chain management. Heuristic approaches to the vehicle routing problem (VRP) are usually used to design optimal delivery routes to serve ...
Robust airline schedule planning : review and development of optimization approaches
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Major airlines aim to generate schedules that maximize profit potential and satisfy constraints involving flight schedule design, fleet assignment, aircraft maintenance routing and crew scheduling. Almost all aircraft and ...
Routing in probabilistic networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This thesis considers tlhe problem of routing in a network where the travel times along the arcs are modeled as independent random variables. A standard approach to routing in such networks is to select a path with the ...
Marginal social cost auctions for congested airport facilities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Harmonization of aviation user charges in the North Atlantic airspace
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore various harmonization scenarios for North Atlantic en route user charges. The current charging system involves eight countries, each with their own method for computing user charges. ...
Real-time Multi-period truckload routing problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In this thesis we consider a multi-period truckload pick-up and delivery problem dealing with real-time requests over a finite time horizon. We introduce the notion of postponement of requests, whereby the company can ...
Estimating the true extent of air traffic delays
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Most air traffic delay measures assess delays relative to schedule. Over the past decades, however, airline schedules have been adjusted to take into account airspace congestion and yield better on-time performance. In ...