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A Network Pricing Formulation for the Revenue Maximization of European Air Navigation Service Providers

par Castelli, Lorenzo ;Labbé, Martine ;Violin, Alessia
Référence Transportation research. Part C, Emerging technologies, 33, page (214-226), doi:10.1016/j.trc.2012.04.013
Publication Publié, 2013-08-01

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In Europe, all Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) finance their activities by charging airlines to use their airspace. These `en route charges' usually account for a signi cant fraction of the cost of a flight, and they can therefore influence the route choice: airlines may decide to fly longer routes to avoid countries with higher charges. If ANSPs want to maximize their revenues, they must choose the optimal charge to impose on their airspace. We show that this optimal charge can be identi ed through a Network Pricing Problem formulation in the form of Bilevel Programming where the leader (i.e. the ANSP) owns a set of arcs (the airways in its national airspace) and charges the commodities (i.e. the flights) passing through them. As the en route charges are proportional to a Unit Rate value xed by the ANSP, by exploiting the structure of the problem we propose an exact algorithm to compute the optimal Unit Rate and apply it to a preliminary case study.