A Dynamic Programming Model to Optimize the Capacity Control with the Priority of Air Cargo

This paper concentrates on the problem of the air cargo space management strategy with a comprehensive, abstract and simplified way, on the basis of the actual characteristics of transport demand in China's air cargo market. We focus on the urgent transportation of goods and general cargo transport whose time requirements are different. The paper first proposes a single-leg cargo space management dynamic programming model according to the different time limit of different kinds of goods, and then the two dimensional single-leg air cargo problem is transformed into one dimensional two-leg airline network problem. After that, we use the expanded method of dynamic programming decomposition to solve the model. A numerical example is solved and simulated to verify the effectiveness of the program.