AN ALGORITHM FOR CALCULATING CONSISTENT ITINERARY FLOWS

This paper presents a simple approach for calculating consistent on-board itinerary flows and the corresponding loads, revenues and marginal seat values given a set of underlying demands and an assignment of seating capacities to legs. An application of this approach to a large-scale airline network is presented and the implication of the results for decision-making discussed. Although the approach is presented in the context of airline planning, it is applicable to any transportation system in which connecting traffic plays a significant part as well as to hotel and automobile rentals.

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• Authors:
  • Phillips, R L
  • Boyd, D W
  • Grossman, T A
• Publication Date: 1991-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 225-239
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Algorithms; Loads; Revenues; Traffic flow; Vehicle capacity
• Old TRIS Terms: Seating capacity
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00612572
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1991 12:00AM