Modeling of Environmental and Fuel Challenges in the Air Transportation Hub-and-Spoke Network

Sound and air pollution and fuel shortage are the main challenges currently facing the air industry. Research gaps are felt to exist in the scientific investigation of the problem that could properly put the associated challenges into a modeling perspective. The present study aims to develop a novel, multi-objective model that takes into account the triple economic, environmental, and energy objectives of the uncapacitated multiple allocation hub location problem with fixed costs. Efficient solutions are obtained using the -constraint method while the grouping AHP approach is used for selecting the preferred solution. Computational results of model on the CAB data set will also be reported. Finally, according to the developed model and solution method, domestic air transportation hub-and-spoke network of country of IRAN is proposed.