METHOD TO PROPAGATE A SYSTEM LEVEL UTILIZATION GOAL TO INDIVIDUAL SYSTEM ELEMENTS

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for propagating a system level utilization goal to individual system elements. For example, a utilization goal such as a load factor goal for a group of airline flights in a given market segment and time period may be propagated to each flight in the group. When propagating a load factor goal to a group of airline flights, a goal value, historical load factors, and a capacity of each flight in the group may be used to determine a load factor target for each flight in the flight group. The propagated load factor targets are expected to be realizable by each flight in the flight group and, in the aggregate, satisfy the system level goal.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method to propagate a system utilization goal to a plurality of system elements, the method comprising:
receiving a value for the system utilization goal; determining, by operation of at least one processor, a scaling factor based on the value for the system utilization goal, a historical utilization value for each of the plurality of system elements, and a capacity associated with each system element; and determining an element utilization target for each system element based on the scaling factor.