Postgraduate Course: Operational Research in the Airline Industry (MATH11042)
Course Outline
| School | School of Mathematics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 5 |
| Home subject area | Mathematics |
Other subject area | Operational Research |
| Course website |
http://student.maths.ed.ac.uk |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This module will address real world applications of Operational Research in the airline industry. Two specific problems will be discussed, crew scheduling and yield management. Crew scheduling is the problem of the optimal use of crew and flight attendants. It can be formulated as a set partitioning problem, which requires sophisticated combinatorial optimization techniques to solve efficiently.
Yield management is the problem of selecting the fares to charge the customers and how to adjust these dynamically in response to bookings. Specific pricing strategies with tools, techniques and their implementation will be discussed. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Understanding of real word applications of Operational Research in the airline industry. The ability to formulate and solve certain combinatorial optimization problems as set partitioning problems. |
Assessment Information
| Continuous Assessment 50%, Exam 50% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | ORAI |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Julian Hall
Tel: (0131 6)50 5075
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Course secretary | Mrs Frances Reid
Tel: (0131 6)50 4883
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