Title

Automated Multi-Objective Optimization System For Airport Site Layouts

Keywords

Airport construction; Construction management; Construction site; Evolutionary computation; Optimization; Security; Site evaluation; Site preparation

Abstract

Airport construction planners often face the problem of identifying optimal locations for temporary construction facilities on site, as the planned locations of these facilities usually influence important and conflicting planning objectives such as improving the efficiency of construction operations and maintaining safety on site. Careful evaluation of all feasible locations for temporary facilities and the selection of an optimal layout are needed in order to achieve these multiple important objectives. This paper presents the development of a practical automated system to optimize multiple conflicting planning objectives and provide all possible optimal tradeoff solutions among these objectives. The system is implemented and integrated in four main modules: (1) a comprehensive multi-objective optimization engine that integrates and optimizes construction work zone safety, construction-related aviation safety, construction-related airport security, and all relevant site layout costs; (2) a relational database that integrates planning data and stores all the generated optimal solutions; (3) an Input/Output module to facilitate specifying planning and optimization parameters and retrieving the generated optimal site layout solutions; and (4) a visualization module that communicates with external CAD software in order to support the visualization of the generated optimal site layout plans. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

7-1-2011

Publication Title

Automation in Construction

Volume

20

Issue

4

Number of Pages

313-320

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2010.11.001

Socpus ID

79954583036 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79954583036

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