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OR-MASTER

OR-MASTER

OR-MASTER is led by a team at Lancaster University Management School, working with Computing, Science and Mathematics researchers at Leicester University. The research has been funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) in response to growing concerns over airport capacity, rising demand, and the impact of congestion on both the travelling public and the air transport industry.

The work will build on the UK's world-leading expertise in Operational Research to find the most efficient ways to schedule flights, developing and testing new models and solution algorithms that take into account all the factors involved in the allocation of flight 'slots': individual airport operations, networks of airports, airline operations, air traffic management systems, airport authorities, civil aviation authorities, airlines and the travelling public.

Project lead, Professor Konstantinos G. Zografos at Lancaster University Management School, said: "Existing approaches to airport slot allocation do not consider all the real-world complexity involved. Therefore, there is room to improve airport capacity utilization which will benefit airlines, airports and the travelling public."

OR-MASTER Lancaster members include the following:

OR-MASTER external members include the following:

  • Edmund Burke (Co-investigator, University of Leicester)
  • John Drake (Co-investigator, University of Leicester)
  • David Melder (University of Leicester)
  • Sha Wang (Queen Mary University of London)

This research group participates in a wide range of activities and hosts events such as conferences, presentations and more.

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Latest Activities

Discover the latest updates from the OR-MASTER project including our latest research papers, news, events and blogs. For our activities to date, please visit our Events Archive.

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3-Year PhD studentship in Mathematical Models and Algorithms for Managing Airport Capacity

"Mathematical Models and Algorithms for Allocating Scarce Airport Resources” (OR-MASTER) is a Programme Grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). OR-MASTER aims to develop new mathematical models and algorithms for solving complex, large-scale resource allocation problems, with the ultimate goal of developing innovative decision support capabilities for airport capacity allocation and management. At Lancaster, OR-MASTER is undertaken by the Centre for Tra

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Honorable mention in INFORMS 2021 AAS Best Student Presentation Competition

Fotios Katsigiannis (OR-MASTER PhD student, supervised by Konstantinos Zografos), participated in the INFORMS 2021 conference and the Aviation Applications Section (AAS) Best Student Presentation Competition.

This year’s AAS Best Student Presentation Competition hosted presentations from 12 doctoral students from around the globe. Fotios’ talk was entitled “Multi-Objective, Multi-Stakeholder Airport Slot Scheduling Considering Expected Delays” and received an Honorable Mention.
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CENTRAL members reach the final stage of ROADEF/EURO 2020 Challenge

David Torres Sanchez and Matthew Bold placed 5th in the finals of the ROADEF/EURO 2020 Challenge.
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Lancaster experts bring sustainable development insights to SE Asia

Members of Lancaster University Management School’s Centre for Transport and Logistics (CENTRAL) joined forced with academics from Kent and Southampton Universities to bring news insights into sustainability to Southeast Asia.
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RESPOND-OR: Supporting disaster management and humanitarian aid organizations to cope effectively with large-scale natural disasters

On 8 June 2021, Lancaster University researchers from the Centre for Transport and Logistics (CENTRAL) held an online workshop with the participation of the National Disaster Management Authority of the Republic of Indonesia (BNPB) and Humanitarian Forum Indonesia (HFI)
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Participation of CENTRAL academics in EURO2021

Professor Zografos is organizing the OR in Aviation and the Combinatorial Optimization streams in the upcoming 31st European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2021).

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