Platform Design for Fleet - Level Efficiency 21 October 2013

ion ............................................................................................................. 3 Determination of Number of New Aircraft Needed ................................................. 4 Aircraft Sizing ......................................................................................................... 5 Monolithic Problem Formulation ............................................................................. 7 Traditional Aircraft Allocation Problem ................................................................ 7 AMC Fleet Allocation Including Design of New Aircraft ...................................... 8 Demand Asymmetry in AMC Network .................................................................... 9 Monolithic Optimization With Scheduling-Like Allocation ..................................... 10 Subspace Decomposition Strategy ...................................................................... 11 Aircraft Sizing Subspace ...................................................................................... 12 Scheduling-Like AMC Allocation Subspace ......................................................... 13 Monte Carlo Sampling Technique ..................................................................... 13 Results ..................................................................................................................... 16 Three-Base Network Problem .............................................................................. 16 Baseline Scenario Allocation ............................................................................ 16 Introduction of New Aircraft .............................................................................. 17 Larger Network Problem With 22 Bases .............................................................. 18 Solutions Without Uncertainty in Demand for 22-Base Network Problem ......... 18 Solutions With Uncertainty in Demand and Home Base Location for 22-Base Network Problem .............................................................................................. 23 Conclusions ............................................................................................................. 26 Potential Extensions of Framework .......................................................................... 28 Contributions of Research .................................................................................... 30 References .............................................................................................................. 31