The case for coordination : equity, efficiency and passenger impacts in air traffic flow management

........................................................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................ 3 List of Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1: Introduction .................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 Air Traffic Management .................................................................................................. 8 1.1.1 Traffic Flow Management (TFM) ............................................................................ 9 1.2 Literature Review ........................................................................................................... 10 1.3 Outline of Contributions ................................................................................................ 13 Chapter 2: Coordinating TFM Programs ....................................................................................... 15 2.1 Ration-by-Schedule (RBS) and Fairness ....................................................................... 19 2.1.1 Problems with Multi-Resource RBS ...................................................................... 19 2.1.2 Principles for Measuring Fairness .......................................................................... 21 2.1.3 Time-Order Deviation Metric ................................................................................ 22 2.2 Optimization Approaches .............................................................................................. 24 2.2.1 Data and Notation .................................................................................................. 25 2.2.2 Model Foundation .................................................................................................. 27 2.2.3 Time-Order Deviation Approximation (TODA) Model ........................................ 28 2.2.4 Ration-by-Schedule Exponential Penalty (RBS-EP) Model .................................. 31 2.2.5 Integration Issues ................................................................................................... 32 2.3 Scenario Construction .................................................................................................... 33 2.3.1 Apples-to-Apples Comparison ............................................................................... 34 2.4 Results ............................................................................................................................ 35 2.4.1 Trade-off between Equity and Efficiency .............................................................. 35 2.4.2 Computational Performance .................................................................................. 41 2.4.3 Flight Delay Distributions ...................................................................................... 42 2.4.4 Value of Efficiency ................................................................................................ 43 Chapter 3: Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays ....................................................................... 45 3.