Estimation of Fuel Consumption in a Hypothesized Spoke-hub Airline Networks for the Transportation of Passengers

Transportation industry expands rapidly, fuel is a main cost element in air transportation industry. Worldwide airline networks strive to adopt a method, which enables them, to schedule their flights, with the minimum quantity of fuel to transport passengers through hub and spoke airlines networks. Therefore, fuel consumption should be investigated as economically as possible. To minimize the voyage fuel consumption for a set of aircraft routes, merging airfreight transportation routes through the hub and spoke networks plays a significant value in reducing the redundancy of long flights. A transshipment network of various numbers of international airports is developed; the developed transshipment network is then converted into a transportation network that is assumed to transfer passengers from their source airport to their intended destination airport directly. The methodology has been applied to three different real-life cases. Obtained solutions are tested and validated. Rationality of solutions are decided. A scientific methodology for the analysis and for the scheduling oqf passengers' transportation is presented. The methodology generated valid solutions that have been found workable which can improve transportation economics. (C) 2019 Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. All rights reserved