A time-dependent subgraph-capacity model for multiple shortest paths and application to CO2/contrail-safe aircraft trajectories
Résumé
This paper proposes a study motivated by the problem of minimizing the environmental impact of air transport at the level of a
complete air network, considering thereby several aircraft. Both CO2 and non-CO2 effects are taken into account to calculate this impact. The proposed methodology takes into account a network point of view where airspace capacities evolve as well as the traffic itself over time. Finding a shortest path with various constraints and cost functions is a common problem in operations
research. This particular study deals with the special case of computing multiple shortest paths with capacity constraints on a time-dependent subgraph. Multiple shortest paths is understood as one shortest path for each vehicle considered. The static special case is modeled as a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP), so that it can be solved directly by a standard commercial solver.
The time-dependent nature of the problem is then modeled thanks to a sliding-window approach. Encouraging numerical results on the CO2/contrail-safe aircraft trajectories application are obtained and show that the environmental impact can be significantly reduced while maintaining safety by satisfying the airspace capacity constraints.
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