The assignment of aircraft arriving on schedule to available gates is a major issue during the daily airline operations. The Gate Assignment Problem (GAP) is an easily-understood but difficult to solve problem. An important issue in GAP is to minimize the distance a passenger is required to walk...

This paper presents a formulation and two solution methods for a very complex logistical problem in disaster relief management. The problem to be addressed is a large-scale multicommodity, multi-modal network flow problem with time windows. Due to the nature of this problem, the size of the...