MORe: Natashia Boland's Research Interest - Aircraft routing and related mathematical problems.

Planning aircraft movements to ensure aircraft are maintained at the correct intervals and various objectives optimised. Study of related mathematical problems such as the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem with Replenishment Arcs. Commenced while post-Doc. at Georgia Tech. Initial collaboration with Georgia Tech and MIT, later work with PhD student.

Publications

• C. Barnhart, N. Boland, L. Clarke, E.L. Johnson, G.L. Nemhauser and R.G. Shenoi. "Flight string models for aircraft fleeting and routing." Transportation Science, 32: 208-220, 1998.
• N. Boland, L.W. Clarke and G.L. Nemhauser. "The asymmetric travelling salesman problem with replenishment arcs." European Journal of Operational Research, 123:408-427, 2000.
• V. Mak and N. Boland. "Heuristic approaches to the asymmetric travelling salesman problem with replenishment arcs." International Transactions in Operations Research, 7:431-447, 2000.

One paper submitted to Mathematical Programming: Mak & Boland in 2003.

Airline planning and optimisation.

Commercial research, details confidential. Collaboration with CSIRO DBCE on pilot project with an Australian airline.

Airline strategic planning problems.