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A competitive, charter air-service planning model for student athlete travel |
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| Authors: | Gautam Gupta Mark Hansen |
| Institution: | a National Center for Aviation Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, 107E McLaughlin Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1720, USA b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, 121E More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, WA 98105, USA c National Center for Aviation Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, 114 McLaughlin Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1720, USA |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a model for planning an air charter service for pre-scheduled group travel. This model is used to investigate the competitiveness of such an enterprise for student athlete travel in conference sports. The relevant demand subset to be served by a limited charter fleet is identified through a comparison with existing scheduled travel options. Further, the routing and scheduling of the charter aircraft is performed within the same framework. Through this modeling a method for formulating and accommodating continuous time windows and competitive market dynamics in strategic planning for a charter service is developed. Computational improvements to the basic model are also presented and tested. The model is applied to the Big Sky Conference for the 2006-2007 season, quantifying the benefits to the students from such a service and the change in expenditure associated with such a benefit for various assumptions about operations and value of time. The findings indicate the lack of spatial or sport based patterns for maximizing benefit, indicating the absence of simplistic “rules of thumb” for operating such a service, and validating the need for the model. |
| Keywords: | Air-service planning Charter airline competition Fleet assignment model Fleet routing model Fleet scheduling Student athlete |
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