航空客运平行航班动态定价模型

中国管理科学 ›› 2012, Vol. ›› Issue (3): 104-111.

航空客运平行航班动态定价模型

罗利¹, 萧柏春²

1. 四川大学工商管理学院服务管理研究所, 四川成都 610064;
2. 美国长岛大学商学院, 纽约 115448

收稿日期:2009-12-15 修回日期:2012-05-04 出版日期:2012-06-29 发布日期:2012-07-05
基金资助:
国家自然科学基金资助项目(71172197,70771068,71131006);2012年四川大学中央高校基本科研业务费项目(skgt201202)

The Dynamic Pricing Model for Airline Parallel Flights

LUO Li¹, XIAO Bai-chun²

1. Service Management Institute, Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China;
2. Department of Business, Long Island University, New York 11548, USA

Received:2009-12-15 Revised:2012-05-04 Online:2012-06-29 Published:2012-07-05

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 航空公司在同一航线上,提供多个不同时刻起飞的航班,我们称这样的航班为平行航班。本文应用随机控制理论建立了两个平行航班动态定价连续时间数学模型,证明了最优策略的性质,得到了最优动态定价综合策略,并给出了最优控制的时间阈值点。数值实验结果表明,这种时间阈值点的综合控制策略不仅易于实施,而且,应用该优化模型得到的总收入比两个平行航班独立决策时得到的总收入大。

关键词: 航空客运, 收益管理, 平行航班, 动态定价

Abstract: In the current circumstance of fierce competition market in air passenger industry, there are a few correspondingly monopoly routes for airline company. Moreover, the multiple flights in the same leg every day are named as parallel flights. How to make dynamic pricing policy in order to maximize total revenue of all the flights of the leg? With the stochastic control theory,dynamic pricing continuous time model for two parallel flights of a monopoly airline is developed, the properties of the value function and the threshold point of time of optimum control are discussed. Numerical examples show that this control policy is not only prone to implement, but also more profitable than that of the policy for independent demand.

Key words: air passenger industry, revenue management, parallel flights, dynamic pricing

中图分类号:

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罗利, 萧柏春. 航空客运平行航班动态定价模型 [J]. 中国管理科学, 2012, (3): 104-111.

LUO Li, XIAO Bai-chun. The Dynamic Pricing Model for Airline Parallel Flights[J]. Chinese Journal of Management Science, 2012, (3): 104-111.

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