Aircraft Cabin Cleaning Optimization

Aircraft turnaround optimization has recently gained attention from researchers, with the goal of freeing up capacity in congested airports. Most modern research focuses on the passenger boarding process. However, cabin cleaning also resides in the process critical path and an improvement of the cleaning lead time will therefore impact the...

Dynamic Capacity Allocation for Optimal Revenue Management: A ULCC Data Driven Case Study

In the airline industry revenue and inventory is managed tightly, with the intent to sell each seat at the right price to the right customer at the right time. This does not always go to plan and seats remain unsold, or demand can be greater than what is available. The question then becomes how can capacity and revenue be managed more...

Location optimized hybrid damping for one-dimensional flexible structures

Damping vibrations of flexible structures is a subject of importance in several industries, as the aerospace and high-tech industry. Especially when the ratio of damping over weight needs to be high. In literature optimization of this ratio is achieved in several manners, through optimization of individual damping methods, ie. active and passive...

Optimization of User Equilibrium container transportation problems using toll pricing

The goal of this thesis is to provide a method to obtain a User Equilibrium (UE) in a synchromodal transportation network in which we transport containers for multiple customers. <br/>We use the Space Time Network (STN), in which the travel time of modalities is fixed and independent of the occupancy of the network.<br/>We define the User...

The financial implications of building design: a developer and consumer preference-based residential design system

As of yet, there are virtually no practical tools available for incorporating both developer and consumer preferences within a floorplan design. This study aims to deliver a proof of concept for such preference-based design systems, and their application within the commercial property development process. A research model is presented that is...