Dynamic Simultaneous Fare Proration for Large-Scale Network Revenue Management

Kemmer, P and Strauss, A K and Winter, T (2011) Dynamic Simultaneous Fare Proration for Large-Scale Network Revenue Management. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

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Abstract

Network revenue management is concerned with managing demand for products that require inventory from one or several resources by controlling product availability and/or prices in order to maximize expected revenues subject to the available resource capacities. One can tackle this problem by decomposing it into resource-level subproblems that can be solved efficiently, e.g. by dynamic programming (DP). We propose a new dynamic fare proration method specifically having large-scale applications in mind. It decomposes the network problem by fare proration and solves the resource-level dynamic programs simultaneously using simple, endogenously obtained dynamic marginal capacity value es- timates to update fare prorations over time. An extensive numerical simulation study demonstrates that the method results in tightened upper bounds on the optimal expected revenue, and that the obtained policies are very effective with regard to achieved revenues and required runtime.

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Monograph (Working Paper)
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Subjects:
?? transportrevenue managementdynamic programmingair transportdiscipline-based research ??
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49048
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Deposited On:
11 Jul 2011 21:31
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