Qian, Fubin, Strusevich, Vitaly, Gribkovskaia, Irina and Halskau, Øyvind (2014) Minimization of passenger takeoff and landing risk in offshore helicopter transportation: models, approaches and analysis. Omega, 51. pp. 93-106. ISSN 0305-0483 (doi:10.1016/j.omega.2014.09.002)

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Abstract

Offshore petroleum industry uses helicopters to transport the employees to and from installations. Takeoff and landing represent a substantial part of the flight risks for passengers. In this paper, we propose and analyze approaches to create a safe flight schedule to perform pickup of employees by several independent flights. Two scenarios are considered. Under the non-split scenario, exactly one visit is allowed to each installation. Under the split scenario, the pickup demand of an installation can be split between several flights. Interesting links between our problem and other problems of combinatorial optimization, e.g., parallel machine scheduling and bin-packing are established. We provide worst-case analysis of the performance of some of our algorithms and report the results of computational experiments conducted on randomly generated instances based on the real sets of installations in the oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. This paper is the first attempt to handle takeoff and landing risk in a flight schedule that consists of several flights and lays ground for the study on more advanced and practically relevant models.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	[1] The 'Author's Accepted Manuscript' version is attached. [2] Please cite this article as: Fubin Qian, Vitaly Strusevich , Irina Gribkovskaia, Øyvind Halskau, Minimization of Passenger Takeoff and Landing Risk in Offshore Helicopter Transportation: Models, Approaches and Analysis, Omega, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2014.09.002 [3] Publisher's [Elsevier Ltd.] note: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Helicopter transportation; Takeoff and landing risk; Machine scheduling; Bin-packing; Worst-case analysis; Heuristics
Subjects:	T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Faculty of Engineering & Science
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2022 13:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/12239

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