International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 732828, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/732828
Research Article

Optimal Airport Surface Traffic Planning Using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

P. C. Roling and H. G. Visser

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5058, 2600 GB Delft, The Netherlands

Received 16 May 2007; Revised 24 February 2008; Accepted 2 April 2008

Academic Editor: K. Sudhakar

Copyright © 2008 P. C. Roling and H. G. Visser. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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