Flight Dispatch Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded

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Flight dispatch Questions and Correct
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Network

Ans: also referred to as a graph. is defined as a collection of
points and lines joining these points. There is normally some
flow along these lines, going from one point to another.


Nodes and Arcs

Ans: - In a network, the points (circles) are called _____ and the
lines are referred to as _____, links or arrows.


Nodes

Ans: Airports and Waypoints or point of origin and point of
destination.


Flow between two nodes

Ans: The amount of goods, vehicles, flights, passengers and so
on that move from one node to another


Directed Flow


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Ans: If the flow through an arc is allowed only in one direction,
then the arc is said to be a directed arc.


Arc Capacity

Ans: The maximum amount of flow that can be sent through an
arc.


Supply Node

Ans: Nodes with the amount of flow coming to them greater
than the amount of flow leaving them - or nodes with a positive
net flow


Demand Nodes

Ans: Nodes with negative net flow or outflow greater than
inflow


Transshipment Node

Ans: Nodes with the same amount of flow arriving and leaving -
or nodes with zero net flow


A network showing three paths from A - G

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