This project uses Mixed Integer Linear Programming and Dynamic Programming to optimize the takeoff sequence of aircraft at Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) by minimizing departure delay while also obeying separation requirements and position shifting constraints. We modeled taxi time uncertainties based on real data from DFW and analyzed the robustness of the optimization solution and the feasibility of using these methods in real-life. The runtimes of these methods proved to be feasible in real-time, however the solutions failed to be robust, creating a future need for a stochastic optimization.

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Creator

• Baum, Julia Nicole
• Hawkins, William J.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-101411-145537

Advisor

• Heineman, George T.
• Abraham, Jon P.

Year

• 2011

Center

• MIT Lincoln Laboratory-Lexington, Massachusetts Project Center - MQP

Date created

• 2011-10-14

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences
• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright