Ration-by-schedule (RBS) has provided a widely
accepted resource-rationing principle for ground delay program (GDP) planning in the U.S. Rationing of airspace resources poses significant new challenges not well-addressed by RBS. In this
paper, we describe new resource rationing principles and a new methodology for use in rationing access to constrained enroute
airspace. While RBS implicity assumes that all flights requesting a slot must receive one, our new methods explicitly allow some flights to be refused access, since flight operators have the option
of rerouting around the constrained airspace. Unlike RBS our methodology requires and makes use of flight operator preference information and it employs randomization. Our methods have potential usefulness both in airspace flow program (AFP)
planning and in the emerging System Enhancements for Versatile Electronic Negotiation (SEVEN).
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Theme: Network and Strategic Traffic Flow Optimization
Keywords: Rationing, afp, equity, fair allocation
Posted by:
Nasim Vakili Pourtaklo
/ Other authors:
Michael Ball