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A network model for airport common use check-in counter assignments

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The purpose of flight to check-in counter assignments is to assign each flight to specific check-in counters where the airline will provide passenger check-in services. The number of common use check-in counters required for daily operations is an important issue closely related to the airport's level of service and system performance. In this study, a new network model is developed for the optimization of common use check-in counter assignments. The goal is to minimize the number of counters required for daily operations. Numerical tests are performed on data for a major Taiwan airport. The obtained results show that the model performs well.

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Acknowledgements

This research was partially supported by a grant (96-2815-C-156 -004 -H) from the National Science Council of Taiwan. We thank the TTY Airport for providing the test data and their valuable opinions, which have helped us in this research. We also thank the anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions on the presentation of the paper.

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  1. Kainan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Ching-Hui Tang

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At TTY Airport, the number of counters needed by a flight will be between 5 and 9, hence there are five sizes of counter blocks (consisting of 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 counters) designed on each counter side. Counter 7 on each counter side (see the location in Figure 1 and 2) is contained by at most counter blocks of 29. Table A1 shows the number of counter blocks of each size that contain counter 7. For example, there are five counter blocks, consisting of nine counters, containing counter 7 on each side.

Table 5 Number of counter blocks of each size that contain counter 7
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Tang, CH. A network model for airport common use check-in counter assignments. J Oper Res Soc 61, 1607–1618 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2009.126

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