Scheduling Aircraft Landings toBalance Workload of Ground Staff

Scheduling landings of aircrafts is an essential problem which is continuouslysolved as part of the daily operations of an airport control tower. All planesin the airspace of an airport are to be assigned to landing slots by the respon-sible air-trac controller. The support of this decision problem with suitedoptimization approaches has a long lasting tradition in operations research.However, none of the former approaches investigates the impact of the landingsequence on the workload of ground sta. The paper on hand presents threenovel objectives for the aircraft landing problem, which aim at leveling theworkload of ground sta by evenly spreading: (1) number of landed passen-gers, (2) landings per airline, and (3) number of landed passengers per airlineover the planning horizon. Mathematical models along with complexity re-sults are developed und exact and heuristic solution procedures are presented....