| When | Monday, April 30, 2001, 6:30 p.m.; speaker: 7:00pm |
| Where | The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Building (also called ETC) |
| Corner of Speedway and 26th Street (also called Dean Keeton) | |
| Room 5.132 | |
| Speaker | Dirk Guenther, Sabre |
Abstract: Sabre has a long history of developing OR based decision support tools for the travel and transportation industry. In 1995, Sabre formed the Sabre Research Group with the goal to better utilize its OR resources in the effort to maintain the company’s technological leadership. In this talk we give an overview over the OR work done in the Sabre Research Group. In the first part of the presentation, we describe briefly the role of the research group in the company and its interaction with other Sabre groups. The second part of the presentation gives an overview over recent research projects. In this context, we discuss in more detail the evolution of airline Fleet Assignment Models, and the development of a new Airline Schedule Generation tool and developments. Finally, we turn to the current hot topics in flight scheduling, namely robust planning and integration.
About Sabre:
Sabre is the leading provider of technology, distribution and marketing
services for the travel industry. Headquartered in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas,
the company has
nearly 10,000 employees worldwide who span 45 countries. Sabre reported
2000 revenues of $2.6 billion, an increase of 7.5 percent from 1999.
Sabre maintains
an ownership interest of approximately 70 percent in Travelocity.com (Nasdaq:
TVLY), the world's leading online B2C travel site. More information on
Sabre is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.sabre.com.