Evaluation of network reliability for stochastic-flow air transportation network considering discounted fares from airlines

In the tourism sector, travel agent’s managers often set meeting customers’ demand as a top priority and often get discounts from airlines and the discounted fare on each flight depends on their booking, whereas, customers have their request in terms of travel time and cost. This study addresses the...

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Published in:Annals of operations research Vol. 311; no. 1; pp. 335 - 355
Main Author: Nguyen, Thi-Phuong
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2022
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Aeronautics
Air fares
Air transportation
Air transportation industry
Air travel
Airlines
Airport construction
Airports
Algorithms
Aviation
Business and Management
Combinatorics
Customer satisfaction
Customers
Demand
Discounts
Network reliability
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Probability theory
Reliability (Engineering)
Reliability analysis
S.I. : Reliability Modeling with Applications Based on Big Data
System reliability
Theory of Computation
Tourism
Transportation networks
Transportation systems
Travel
Travel agencies
Travel industry
Travel time
Taiwan
Discounted fares
Time threshold
Stochastic-flow air transportation network
Network reliability
Budget constraint
ISSN:0254-5330, 1572-9338
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Summary:In the tourism sector, travel agent’s managers often set meeting customers’ demand as a top priority and often get discounts from airlines and the discounted fare on each flight depends on their booking, whereas, customers have their request in terms of travel time and cost. This study addresses the network reliability, the probability that the given demand can travel from an origin to a destination within the time threshold and the travel cost after discount does not exceed the budget, to indicate travel agents’ ability on satisfying customers’ demand under specific constraints. To calculate the network reliability, this work develops an algorithm, which determines all lower boundary points via the minimal concept. An air transportation system of the travel agent is constructed as a flow-network consisting of sets of nodes (airports) and arcs (flights). On each flight, there exists a contracted airline providing the service with stochastic capacity and corresponding probability. The flow-network in this study is typical stochastic, called a stochastic-flow air transportation network. A real case for the proposed algorithm demonstration and some management suggestions of the network reliability are provided.
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ISSN:0254-5330
1572-9338
DOI:10.1007/s10479-019-03509-3