Postgraduate student at the Department of transport organization and management, Samara National Research University

Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of transport organization and management, Samara National Research University

Postgraduate student at the Department of transport organization and management, Samara National Research University

The relevance of the problem is conditioned by the desire of air carriers to increase economic efficiency by attracting passengers for transportation with a transfer at the regional airport.

The purpose of work is to optimize the schedule of the regional airport, involving the search for such moments of arrivals and departures of aircraft that would minimize the airline's losses because of the outflow of potential transfer passengers, given the restrictions on the admissible times of arrival and departure of each flight, and productivity of technological resources of the airport.

The solution of the problem uses widely known methods of mathematical programming.

Parameters of the regional airport timetable optimization, taking into account the transfer passenger traffic, allows increasing the load of flights, providing the most acceptable time of transfer at the airport. At the same time, the most significant factors remain such as the wishes of the originating and final passengers, the requirements for the fulfillment of the schedule for the turnover of their aircraft and the capabilities of the airport's production facilities. A model example of using the developed optimization algorithm is considered, which indicates the possibility of increasing the airline's profit only due to the timetable optimization. 

Keywords: regional airport, hub airport, transfer passenger traffic, timetable, technological schedule

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