An Optimization Method of Controller Scheduling at Small and Medium-sized Airports Based on Fatigue Analysis

Abstract

In recent years, a number of aviation accidents have caused the social attention to aviation safety. The serious shortage of controllers at China's small and medium-sized airports has become an important hidden danger of aviation accidents. It is necessary to make a scientific and reasonable scheduling scheme in order to solve this problem. Based on civil aviation air traffic management rules to the controllers workload, this article proposes a linear programming method to analysis of China's small and medium-sized airport controllers scheduling model. At the same time, the fatigue factor is accounted into and the model is solved by 0-1 integer programming. Using an actual case data from Wanzhou Airport, the proposed mothed satisfies the needs of the airport and reduce controllers work fatigue to achieve a win-win results.