2010
EMSS 2010 Proceeding
A simulation model to quantify perturbation effects of airport infrastructures in air cargo handling operations
Authors: Miquel Angel Piera, Mercedes Narciso, Juan Jose Ramos, Lanyae Filali
Abstract
The optimisation and proper coordination of air cargo transport operations taking into account infrastructure capacity constraints (i.e., interactio of taxiways with pathways), as well as passenger and airline quality factors is considered nowadays a complex problem to be solved that could contribute to a better competitivity of the industrial sector. The variety of processes, methods, individuals and organizations, in combination with a lack of methodologies to analyze the behavior of the whole airport operation as a combination of the decision taken in each subsystem (ie. handling, airline and airport managers), are one of the main risks that deals with airport and airline delays which have severe cost penalties. In this paper, a simulation model that considers as a hard constraint the airport dwell time of low cost carriers together with uncertainties in the platform pathways to transport the cargo form the airport warehouse till the aircraft parking to load ULD pallets in the first belly has been implemented. Different policies have been implemented to minimize the handling resources required to satisfy the cargo operations for 4 European destinations.
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