Airport Gate Assignment Optimization: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Abstract

In aviation operations and airline management, the Airport Gate Assignment (AGA) is very critical problem like flight, aircraft or crew scheduling problems. The AGA problems are well studied in operations research field. In gate assignment problem, it is significant to determine the capacity of gates based on flight schedules and minimize the passenger-walking distances to gates. This study proposes a comprehensive literature review of the different methodologies and solutions suggested for the AGA problem. AGA involves the efficient assignment of arriving and departing flights to available gates while considering various constraints such as aircraft compatibility, passenger convenience, and operational costs. This review investigates insights from a wide spectrum of works encompassing mathematical optimization models, heuristic approaches, machine learning algorithms, and hybrid techniques utilized to tackle AGA complexities. It is aimed that the proposed comprehensive literature review will be a beneficial guide for the decision makers working on airline management problems.