Revenue Management for Parallel Flights with Customer-Choice Behavior
Revenue Management for Parallel Flights with Customer-Choice Behavior
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10.1287/opre.1050.0194
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2005-05
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Dan Zhang;William L. Cooper
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作者：
Dan Zhang;William L. Cooper
我们考虑一组平行的航班之间的一个共同的起源和目的地的动态客户选择的航班座位库存控制。我们制定的问题作为一个经典的多时期，单航班的“块需求”收益管理模型的扩展。由于其多维状态空间以及航空公司的库存控制确实影响需求分布的事实，因此产生的马尔可夫决策过程非常复杂。使用随机比较，消费者选择模型，和库存池的想法，我们得到容易计算的上限和下限的价值函数的模型。我们提出了基于模拟的技术来解决随机优化问题，并描述了基于扩展的一个著名的线性规划制定的mathematics。我们提供数值例子。
We consider the simultaneous seat-inventory control of a set of parallel flights between a common origin and destination with dynamic customer choice among the flights. We formulate the problem as an extension of the classic multiperiod, single-flight "block demand" revenue management model. The resulting Markov decision process is quite complex, owing to its multidimensional state space and the fact that the airline's inventory controls do affect the distribution of demand. Using stochastic comparisons, consumer-choice models, and inventory-pooling ideas, we derive easily computable upper and lower bounds for the value function of our model. We propose simulation-based techniques for solving the stochastic optimization problem and also describe heuristics based upon an extension of a well-known linear programming formulation. We provide numerical examples.