管理科学与工程系学术讲座

题目: A Dynamic Model for Airline Fleeting and Scheduling动态航空排班

演讲人: Chiwei Yan, University of California Berkeley

时间: 2023年8月16日10：00

地点: 线上ZOOM会议

会议号：920 397 74847

会议密码：291530

讲座摘要:

COVID-19 has reshaped the global airline industry. Travel demands are volatile, and passengers have more flexibility in bookings and cancellations. More than ever, airlines have to be agile and adaptive while making operational decisions. We introduce a dynamic model to help airlines make adaptive fleeting and scheduling decisions based on stochastically evolving bookings and contextual signals. The model incorporates both arrivals (new bookings) and departures (cancellations), and the contextual information affecting future demand. This significantly generalizes and strengthens previous modeling attempts. We develop a Lagrangian relaxation framework that decomposes the dynamic program defined on a large time-space network into separable flight-level problems. Owing to the complexities of this network, our Lagrangian dual problem is not straightforward to solve. We therefore develop a tailored and simple projected subgradient algorithm that exploits the structure of this network for efficient solutions. We establish the correctness and convergence properties of this procedure. Our analysis yields new theoretical, algorithmic, and managerial insights into the dynamic fleeting and scheduling problem. We present computational experiments based on real-world airline data to demonstrate the potential benefits of this approach.

演讲嘉宾简介:

Chiwei Yan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he taught at the University of Washington Seattle and was a senior data scientist at the marketplace optimization group at Uber where he designed the rider surge pricing algorithm. He received his Ph.D. from the Operations Research Center at MIT and his undergraduate degree (with summa cum laude) in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University. His research centers around transportation and logistics systems, with a recent focus on emerging problems in online platforms. He also has a particular interest in air transportation systems. His work aims to study fundamental properties of these problems and propose (data-driven) practical solutions for implementation. When analyzing these problems, he is broadly interested in tools from optimization, game theory, stochastic modeling and statistics.