Alexandre JACQUILLAT

Alexandre JACQUILLAT

Academic Background:

• 2012 - present • MIT, ESD: PhD student in Engineering Systems
• 2012 • MIT, ESD: Master's of Science – Technology and Policy
• 2010 • Ecole Polytechnique (France): Master's of Science – Operations Research

Work Experience:

• Summer 2012 • Booz Allen Hamilton • Boston, MA
  Public policy consulting in energy and transportation
• Summer 2010 • University of Montreal • Montreal, Canada
  Stochastic Modeling - Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
• Summer 2009 • Aurecon • Cape Town, South Africa
  Water Engineering

Research Domain:

air transportation system, airport operations, critical infrastructure, capacity planning, capacity allocation

Research Methodology:

stochastic modeling, operations research, dynamic programming, integer programming, regulatory economics, game theory

Research Description:

Since the phasing out of the High Density Rule, effective January 1, 2007, access to major commercial airports in the US has been weakly constrained. This largely unregulated demand combined with capacity constraints led to record-high delays in 2007. Significant reductions in flight delays in the US can be achieved through reductions in imbalances between demand and capacity at the busiest airports.

Alex is developing an integrated framework for airport congestion mitigation. At the tactical level, he optimizes the utilization of airport capacity, i.e., the dynamic allocation of available capacity to arriving and departing flights, in order to minimize congestion costs. At the strategic level, he designs schedule coordination measures that aim at reducing peak-hour scheduling levels in order to reduce anticipated delays. Alex investigate the impacts of schedule coordination on airlines' scheduling strategies and operation profits as well as on airport congestion.

• A. Jacquillat and A. Odoni, "A Study of Airport Congestion at JFK and EWR", 5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT), Berkeley, CA, May 2012
• P. Bonnefoy, A. Jacquillat and A. Fan, "Investigation of Benefits and Implications from Fleet of Aircraft with Alternative Mission (Range) Specifications", 8th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN), San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, June 2013
• A. Jacquillat, A. Odoni and M. Webster, Airport Congestion Mitigation through Dynamic Control of Runway Configurations and of Arrival and Departure Service Rates under Stochastic Operating Conditions", ESD Working Paper Series, 2013
• A. Jacquillat and A. Odoni, Congestion Mitigation through Schedule Coordination at JFK: An Integrated Approach, in preparation