Article ID: | iaor20052684 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 368 |
End Page Number: | 391 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2003 |
Journal: | Transportation Science |
Authors: | Odoni Amedeo R., Barnhart Cynthia, Belobaba Peter |
Keywords: | history, personnel & manpower planning |
This paper presents an overview of several important areas of operations research applications in the air transport industry. Specific areas covered are: the various stages of aircraft and crew schedule planning; revenue management, including overbooking and leg-based and network-based seat inventory management; and the planning and operations of aviation infrastructure (airports and air traffic management). For each of these areas, the paper provides a historical perspective on OR contributions, as well as a brief summary of the state of the art. It also identifies some of the main challenges for future research.