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- Title
Aircraft selection modeling: a multi-step heuristic to enumerate airlift alternatives.
- Authors
Maywald, Jacob D.; Reiman, Adam D.; Overstreet, Robert E.; Johnson, Alan W.
- Abstract
We consider the use of the new C-130J-30 aircraft for long distance (strategic) cargo movement. Currently, only large aircraft, the C-5 and the C-17, are identified as strategic airlift assets by the United States Air Force. Our mathematical model identifies all logical airframe combinations to perform a cargo movement given a set of constraints. Using previously developed routing algorithms and fuel metrics, we evaluated the combinations and calculated the potential savings had the most fuel efficient combination been selected. Analyzing 1 month of historic data for four long distance routes, our proposed model suggests that savings could have been more than one million dollars.
- Subjects
HERCULES (Turboprop transports); C-17 (Jet transport); GALAXY (Jet transport); UNITED States. Air Force; MATHEMATICAL models; MILITARY airlift
- Publication
Annals of Operations Research, 2019, Vol 274, Issue 1/2, p425
- ISSN
0254-5330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10479-018-2933-9