The Multi-Airport Ground-Holding Problem in Air Traffic Control

In 1986, the total profits of the U.S. airline industry were of the order of $800 million, while its total delay costs due to congestion approached the figure of $2 billion. Motivated by this important problem of congestion costs and observing that ground delays are far more preferable than airborne...

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Main Authors: Vranas, Peter B., Bertsimas, Dimitris J., Odoni, Amedeo R.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5387