US Army Aviation air movement request problem instances

Although lacking the same preeminent status of air assault planning, air
movement operations comprise a majority of Army utility and cargo
helicopter combat aviation operations in terms of volume of customers and
the endless appetite for rapid movement of troops across the battlespace.
The data provided enabled research and development of a US Army Aviation
air movement mission planning model to assist the mission planner by
rapidly providing courses of action based on the commander's
priorities. Features of the problem and the data provided include priority
demand, multi-node refueling, aircraft and passenger time windows, maximum
passenger transportation time, and the minimization of unsupported demand,
aircraft utilization, and total flight time. The mathematical model
provided is an extension of the dial-a-ride problem (DARP) that will
coordinate air mission requests (AMRs) at the aviation task force-level or
lower to generate courses of action that optimize helicopter fleet
resourcing and routing decisions against mission variables, while
supporting the optimal number of AMRs that sustain combat power over time.