A Demo System for the Airport Gate Assignment Algorithm Study and Evaluation

With the rapid development of civil aviation transportation, the airport gate assignment problem (AGAP) has become an important issue for improving the operation efficiency of airport. By now, there has been a lot of algorithm research on the AGAP. However, the dynamic of flight schedule and the huge amount of large hub airport has not been well considered. For the convenient of advanced algorithm study and evaluation, a demo system for the AGAP is designed and built providing the function of data input, animation display of gate assignment result and the AGAP algorithm module. The user interface and the animation are implemented using the HTML and CSS, the AGAP algorithm functions are called through JavaScript, and the PHP is responsible for accessing the MySQL database. The test result show that the system can process data properly and the animation is smooth. The monitoring data of system running environment show that the system works stably.