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Integration methods for aircraft scheduling and trajectory optimization at a busy terminal manoeuvring area

Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano, Konstantin Palagachev, Matthias Gerdts

OR Spectrum > 2019 > 41 > 3 > 641-681

This paper deals with the problem of efficiently scheduling take-off and landing operations at a busy terminal manoeuvring area (TMA). This problem is particularly challenging, since the TMAs are becoming saturated due to the continuous growth of traffic demand and the limited available infrastructure capacity. The mathematical formulation of the problem requires taking into account several features...

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Integrating train scheduling and delay management in real-time railway traffic control

Francesco Corman, Andrea D’Ariano, Alessio D. Marra, Dario Pacciarelli, more

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review > 2017 > 105 > C > 213-239

Optimization models for railway traffic rescheduling tackle the problem of determining, in real-time, control actions to reducing the effect of disturbances in railway systems. In this field, mainly two research streams can be identified. On the one hand, train scheduling models are designed to include all conditions relevant to feasible and efficient operation of rail services, from the viewpoint...

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Metaheuristics for efficient aircraft scheduling and re-routing at busy terminal control areas

Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano, Francesco Corman, Dario Pacciarelli

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies > 2017 > 80 > C > 485-511

Intelligent decision support systems for the real-time management of landing and take-off operations can be very effective in helping air traffic controllers to limit airport congestion at busy terminal control areas. The key optimization problem to be solved regards the assignment of airport resources to take-off and landing aircraft and the aircraft sequencing on them. The problem can be formulated...

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Scheduling models for optimal aircraft traffic control at busy airports: Tardiness, priorities, equity and violations considerations

Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano, Paolo D’Ariano, Dario Pacciarelli

Omega > 2017 > 67 > C > 81-98

This work addresses the real-time optimization of take-off and landing operations at a busy terminal control area in case of traffic congestion. Terminal areas are becoming the bottleneck of the entire air traffic control system, in particular in the major European airports, where there is a limited possibility to build new infrastructure. The real-time problem of effectively managing aircraft operations...

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On the tactical and operational train routing selection problem

Marcella Samà, Paola Pellegrini, Andrea D’Ariano, Joaquin Rodriguez, more

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies > 2017 > 76 > C > 1-15

In the real-time railway traffic management problem, the number of alternative routings available to each train strongly affects the size of the problem and the time required to optimally solve it. The train routing selection problem identifies a suitable subset of alternative routings to be used for each train in the real-time railway traffic management. This paper analyzes the impact of solving...

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A variable neighbourhood search for fast train scheduling and routing during disturbed railway traffic situations

Marcella Samà, Andrea D׳Ariano, Francesco Corman, Dario Pacciarelli

Computers & Operations Research > 2017 > 78 > C > 480-499

This paper focuses on the development of metaheuristic algorithms for the real-time traffic management problem of scheduling and routing trains in complex and busy railway networks. This key optimization problem can be formulated as a mixed integer linear program. However, since the problem is strongly NP-hard, heuristic algorithms are typically adopted in practice to compute good quality solutions...

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Coordination of scheduling decisions in the management of airport airspace and taxiway operations

Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano, Francesco Corman, Dario Pacciarelli

Transportation Research Procedia > 2017 > 23 > C > 246-262

This paper addresses the real-time problem of coordinating aircraft ground and air operations in an airport area. At a congested airport, airborne decisions are related to take-off and landing operations, while ground (taxiway) decisions consist of scheduling aircraft movements between the gates and the runways. Since the runways are the initial/terminal points of both decisions, coordinated actions...

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Rescheduling Dense Train Traffic over Complex Station Interlocking Areas

Francesco Corman, Rob M. P. Goverde, Andrea D’Ariano

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Robust and Online Large-Scale Optimization > Online Planning: Delay and Disruption Management > 369-386

Railway rescheduling is the task of restoring feasibility in case of disturbances and limiting the propagation of delays through a railway network. This task becomes more difficult when dealing with complex interlocking areas, since operational rules constrain the passage of trains through short track sections. This paper presents a detailed microscopic representation of the railway network that is...

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Ant colony optimization for the real-time train routing selection problem

Marcella Samà, Paola Pellegrini, Andrea D’Ariano, Joaquin Rodriguez, more

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological > 2016 > 85 > C > 89-108

This paper deals with the real-time problem of scheduling and routing trains in a railway network. In the related literature, this problem is usually solved starting from a subset of routing alternatives and computing the near-optimal solution of the simplified routing problem. We study how to select the best subset of routing alternatives for each train among all possible alternatives. The real-time...

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Air traffic optimization models for aircraft delay and travel time minimization in terminal control areas

Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano, Paolo D’Ariano, Dario Pacciarelli

Public Transport > 2015 > 7 > 3 > 321-337

This paper addresses the real-time aircraft routing and scheduling problem at a busy terminal control area (TCA) in case of traffic congestion. The problem of effectively managing TCA operations is particularly challenging, since there is a continuous growth of traffic demand and the TCAs are becoming the bottleneck of the entire air traffic control system. The resulting increase in airport congestion,...

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A Routing Filter for the Real-time Railway Traffic Management Problem Based on Ant Colony Optimization

Marcella Sama‘, Paola Pellegrini, Andrea D’Ariano, Joaquin Rodriguez, more

Transportation Research Procedia > 2015 > 10 > C > 534-543

The growth in transport demand of the last years is a trend expected to continue in the coming years. In railways, the difficulties in building new infrastructures due to high costs or physical obstacles have translated into the need to utilize the already existing infrastructures at their full capacity. During the daily operations disturbances may happen, creating overlapping requests for the same...

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Optimal aircraft scheduling and routing at a terminal control area during disturbances

Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano, Paolo D’Ariano, Dario Pacciarelli

Transportation Research Part C > 2014 > 47 > Part 1 > 61-85

This paper addresses the real-time problem of aircraft scheduling and routing in terminal control area. A main task of traffic controllers is to mitigate the effects of severe traffic disturbances on the day of operations in the Terminal Control Area (TCA) of an airport. When managing disturbed take-off and landing operations, they need to minimize the delay propagation and, in addition, to reduce...

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An iterative optimization framework for delay management and train scheduling

Twan Dollevoet, Francesco Corman, Andrea D’Ariano, Dennis Huisman

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal > 2014 > 26 > 4 > 490-515

Delay management determines which connections should be maintained in case of a delayed feeder train. Recent delay management models incorporate the limited capacity of the railway infrastructure. These models introduce headway constraints to make sure that safety regulations are satisfied. Unfortunately, these headway constraints cannot capture the full details of the railway infrastructure, especially...

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Susceptibility of optimal train schedules to stochastic disturbances of process times

Rune Larsen, Marco Pranzo, Andrea D’Ariano, Francesco Corman, more

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal > 2014 > 26 > 4 > 466-489

This work focuses on the stochastic evaluation of train schedules computed by a microscopic scheduler of railway operations based on deterministic information. The research question is to assess the degree of sensitivity of various rescheduling algorithms to variations in process times (running and dwell times). In fact, the objective of railway traffic management is to reduce delay propagation and...

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Evaluating the Applicability of Advanced Techniques for Practical Real-time Train Scheduling

Andrea D’Ariano, Marcella Samà, Paolo D’Ariano, Dario Pacciarelli

Transportation Research Procedia > 2014 > 3 > C > 279-288

This paper reports on the practical applicability of published techniques for real-time train scheduling. The final goal is the development of an advanced decision support system for supporting dispatchers’ work and for guiding them toward near-optimal real-time re-timing, re-ordering and re-routing decisions. The paper focuses on the optimization system AGLIBRARY that manages trains at the microscopic...

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Short-term Rail Rolling Stock Rostering and Maintenance Scheduling

Giovanni Luca Giacco, Donato Carillo, Andrea D’Ariano, Dario Pacciarelli, more

Transportation Research Procedia > 2014 > 3 > C > 651-659

This paper describes an optimization framework for railway rolling stock rostering and maintenance scheduling. A key problem in railway rostering planning requires covering a given set of services and maintenance works with limited rolling stock units. The problem is solved via a two-step approach that combines the scheduling tasks related to train services, short-term maintenance operations and empty...

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Rolling horizon approach for aircraft scheduling in the terminal control area of busy airports

Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano, Dario Pacciarelli

Transportation Research Part E > 2013 > 60 > Complete > 140-155

This paper addresses the real-time problem of scheduling aircraft in a terminal control area. We formulate this problem via the alternative graph formulation. A rolling horizon framework is introduced to manage busy traffic situations with a large number of delayed aircraft. As scheduling algorithms, we compare a branch and bound (BB) algorithm with a first come first served (FCFS) rule. The algorithms...

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Railway line capacity consumption of different railway signalling systems under scheduled and disturbed conditions

Rob M.P. Goverde, Francesco Corman, Andrea D’Ariano

Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management > 2013 > 3 > 3 > 78-94

This paper proposes the new concept of dynamic infrastructure occupation to assess infrastructure capacity under disturbed conditions as a complement to the established capacity indicator of scheduled infrastructure occupation. This new indicator is applied in a capacity assessment study of a Dutch railway corridor with different signalling configurations under both scheduled and disturbed traffic...

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Rescheduling models for railway traffic management in large-scale networks

Pavle Kecman, Francesco Corman, Andrea D’Ariano, Rob M. P. Goverde

Public Transport > 2013 > 5 > 1-2 > 95-123

In the last decades of railway operations research, microscopic models have been intensively studied to support traffic operators in managing their dispatching areas. However, those models result in long computation times for large and highly utilized networks. The problem of controlling country-wide traffic is still open since the coordination of local areas is hard to tackle in short time and there...

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Bi-objective conflict detection and resolution in railway traffic management

Francesco Corman, Andrea D’Ariano, Dario Pacciarelli, Marco Pranzo

Transportation Research Part C > 2012 > 20 > 1 > 79-94

Railway conflict detection and resolution is the daily task faced by dispatchers and consists of adjusting train schedules whenever disturbances make the timetable infeasible. The main objective pursued by dispatchers in this task is the minimization of train delays, while train operating companies are also interested in other indicators of passenger dissatisfaction. The two objectives are conflicting...

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Search results for: Andrea D’Ariano

Integration methods for aircraft scheduling and trajectory optimization at a busy terminal manoeuvring area

Integrating train scheduling and delay management in real-time railway traffic control

Metaheuristics for efficient aircraft scheduling and re-routing at busy terminal control areas

Scheduling models for optimal aircraft traffic control at busy airports: Tardiness, priorities, equity and violations considerations

On the tactical and operational train routing selection problem

A variable neighbourhood search for fast train scheduling and routing during disturbed railway traffic situations

Coordination of scheduling decisions in the management of airport airspace and taxiway operations

Rescheduling Dense Train Traffic over Complex Station Interlocking Areas

Ant colony optimization for the real-time train routing selection problem

Air traffic optimization models for aircraft delay and travel time minimization in terminal control areas

A Routing Filter for the Real-time Railway Traffic Management Problem Based on Ant Colony Optimization

Optimal aircraft scheduling and routing at a terminal control area during disturbances

An iterative optimization framework for delay management and train scheduling

Susceptibility of optimal train schedules to stochastic disturbances of process times

Evaluating the Applicability of Advanced Techniques for Practical Real-time Train Scheduling

Short-term Rail Rolling Stock Rostering and Maintenance Scheduling

Rolling horizon approach for aircraft scheduling in the terminal control area of busy airports

Railway line capacity consumption of different railway signalling systems under scheduled and disturbed conditions

Rescheduling models for railway traffic management in large-scale networks

Bi-objective conflict detection and resolution in railway traffic management

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