Route Planning for Seaplane Services: The Case of the Greek Islands
Seaplanes offer a time and cost-efficient service for supporting transportation needs in island chains. This paper presents the design of a seaplane network connecting the Greek islands with the mainland, a service currently accommodated by ferries. Design of seaplane routes is modeled as a multi-objective capacitated vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickups and deliveries and route length deadlines. A genetic algorithm coupled with a hybrid process is used to solve the model. Results show that a network of 11 routes with maximum flight duration of 5 hours can adequately cover estimated daily transportation needs between the Greek mainland and the islands. Further, realistic increases in seaplane capacity and/or cruising speed will have only a moderate impact on reducing the number of required routes.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AV060 Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay.
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Authors:
- Iliopoulou, Christina
- Kepaptsoglou, Konstantinos
- Karlaftis, Matthew G
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
- Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 20p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air transportation; Algorithms; Islands; Routes and routing; Seaplanes
- Geographic Terms: Aegean Islands; Greece
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01516544
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-1204
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM