Integer Programming Model for Solving Delay Problem in Air Traffic Management System

Nowadays, due to the rapid growth of air traffic and airspace congestion flight delays are becoming serious problems. This situation happens due to the demand capacity imbalances in air traffic management system. The deterioration of the expected service and operational costs would be the direct impact of this problem. Network-wide air traffic flow management can be regarded as an effective way to ease demand-capacity imbalances globally and would be able to reduce airspace congestion and flight delays. This paper proposes an integer programming model to solve the problem. The objective function consists of minimizing operational costs and risk costs.