• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.36-50
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• 2006

It is required to transport a considerable amount of wartime strategic materials from US to Korea via airlift operation. This study attempts to formulate the wartime airlift operation model and evaluate the airlift capability of mobilized resources, including civil aircrafts. Although an airlift plan has been annually updated by the Korea Transportation Command, it is necessary to evaluate the feasibility through simulation due to uncertainties in the process of airlift operation. Uncertain parameters are as follows; the inter-arrival time of materials in the US airfields, loading and unloading times, the distribution of aircraft's initial location at the time of mobilization order. The simulation is executed under two scenarios and the results are analyzed through a sensitivity analysis. Simulation result shows that the irregularity of inter-arrival time and the number of mobilized civil aircrafts are the most critical factors in influencing airlift capability.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.15-33
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• 2000

This paper deals with an estimation method of the airfield capacity for the airlift operation. In the US Air Force, airfield capacities has been estimated using MOG(Maximum -On-the-Ground) concept, which is known to having several weaknesses. Recently, RAND suggests a personal-computer- based model called the Airfield Capacity Estimator(ACE), which is a more advanced and realistic technique compared to the MOG. This paper attempts to modify the ACE appropriate to the Korean airlift operation. While ACE is developed on the basis of strategic mobilization, Korean airlift operation is done on the tactical basis. A designed mdel is tested with simulation technique.