Title: Timetable management to enhance airline schedule reliability and airfield operation performance at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

Authors: Sui-Ling Li

Addresses: Department of Shipping and Transportation Management, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, 300 Liu-Ho Rd., Makung, Taiwan

Abstract: To enable the efficient operation of an airfield and the efficiency of timetable management it is necessary to develop a model that can measure and check the current timetable whether they meet the airfield operation performance. This study develops an optimisation mathematic planning model to formulate objective function of the taxi fuel cost and arrangement of arrival/departure time points for flights timetable within one peak hour. Results show the average taxiing cost and taxiing time for per flight will be 351.25 US dollars and 8.7-19.15 minutes. If pilots control the speed at 15-35 kilometre/hour, the total minimum taxiing time of 20 flights can be decreased to 161-186 minutes. If the pilots use runway 5L to take off/land, it can save 1,299 US dollars in one hour. The interval length of time points at timetable is suggested to be five minutes for easy management and control.

Keywords: timetable management; airline schedule reliability; mathematics programming; taxiing time; airfield operation performance; Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport; airfield capacity; apron capacity; time point; apron schedule; runway schedule; shift forward and backward; shift length of time point.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAM.2017.089444

International Journal of Aviation Management, 2017 Vol.4 No.1/2, pp.48 - 84

Received: 07 Jul 2016
Accepted: 08 Jun 2017

Published online: 24 Jan 2018 *

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