Optimizing Outbound Baggage Handling at KLM

In order to handle the increase in baggage units, KLM needs to optimize the outbound baggage handling process. This study focuses on accurately modeling the outbound baggage handling process while minimizing the number of employees working on this process. The results are based upon data on the outbound baggage handling process at KLM in 2018....

Crew Scheduling Approach to Calculate the Crew Productivity of Flight Schedules

With cockpit crew costs being the second largest costs of an airline, making optimal use of the available crew is very important. The productivity of the crew is limited by the labor agreement and law regulations, which prevent the crew members from working irregularly or excessively. In this thesis we present several methods to solve the crew...

Intermodal Transport: Routing Vehicles and Scheduling Containers

In intermodal transport multiple types of vehicles are used to transport containers. If the routes of the vehicles are known, then the container allocation can be optimized. This problem can be modelled as an integral multi-commodity min cost flow problem on a time-space graph. This model has an arc-based and path-based form. In this thesis, the...