Airport Gate Assignment Problem Using MS Excel

[Wimali]

Hi all,
I need to solve an Airport Gate Assignment Problem using Excel.
The output should include flight number, its respective gate and the time duration for which the gate will be occupied (A picture of which how the output should look like is shown below).

Input parameters will be Flight Number, Type of Aircraft, Arrival Time and Departure time of the flight.
A matrix depicting compatibility of airport gates for wide bodied and narrow bodied aircrafts will also need to be input.
The objective of this assignment is to minimize passenger walking distances, baggage transfer distances and to minimize idling of all gates.

Could anyone help me with this?

 

[Wimali]

This is an example of how the final output may look like using a Ghantt chart. Even an Excel tabular form would also be ideal. (https://www.google.lk/search?q=airp...UIEygB&biw=1366&bih=608#imgrc=bTJTFugoBbzSsM:)

 

[Wimali]

Constraints associated with the problem: Only one gate can be assigned to a selected flight and no 2 flights can be assigned to a selected gate.

 

[Logit]

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Do a Google search for "VBA Room Booking System". Consider each room as a gate.

 

[Wimali]

Thank you so much for the information and the prompt reply! Will surely take a look at the concept.

 

[Logit]

You are welcome.

 

[Wimali]

Does anyone know any simple solution using Ms Excel to run a few data points for the above problem? The VBA solution seems a bit complicated to me.