RE-EXAMINING THE SLOT ALLOCATION PROBLEM

This paper puts forward the case for re-examining the feasibility of using auctions to allocate take-off and landing slots at airports in light of success of the United States (US) radio spectrum auctions. It discusses how the simultaneous multi-round design of the spectrum auctions would need to be adapted to accommodate combinatorial and contingency bidding behavior, given the synergies inherent in operating particular combinations of slots and the substitutability of slots within certain time intervals. It also highlights how broad cooperation would be required to implement such a system across airports located in many different countries.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Nebraska, Omaha

  Aviation Institute, 60th and Dodge Street
  Omaha, NE  United States  68182-0508
• Authors:
  • Tamms, V
• Conference:
  • The Conference Proceedings of the 1999 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG) of the WCTR Society on Air Transportation Operations and Policy
  • Location: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Date: 1999-6-6 to 1999-6-8
• Publication Date: 1999-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 23p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Airport capacity; Airport surface traffic control; Bids; Landing; Slot allocation; Takeoff
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00791137
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UNOAI Report 99-6,, Volume 2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 8 2000 12:00AM