Title
The Development of a Simulation Model for Airline Cockpit Crew Rostering
Author
van Amerongen, Michiel (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering)
Contributor
Lopes Dos Santos, Bruno (mentor)
Degree granting institution
Delft University of Technology
Programme
Aerospace Engineering
Date
2019-08-09
Abstract
This paper presents the development of a simulation model for airline cockpit crew rostering. The developed simulation model supports airlines in performing comparative analyses of different crew rostering scenarios. The model was developed in collaboration with a major European airline, leveraging actual historical pairing, crew and roster data to accurately model the airline crew rostering process. The simulation model is based on a novel solution method that is based on the Hungarian assignment algorithm and that exploits the resemblance of the weekly crew rostering problem to a minimum-cost bipartite matching problem. An assessment of the performance of the simulation model has shown that the simulation model is able to construct rosters of near-optimal solution quality in limited computational time. To test the applicability of the developed model as a scenario analysis tool, two experiments have been performed. The insights the performed experiments have provided confirm the practical value of the developed simulation model.
Subject
Airline Crew Rostering Problem
Personalized Crew Rostering
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Embargo date
2024-08-09
Part of collection
Student theses
Document type
master thesis
Rights
© 2019 Michiel van Amerongen