To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2006.05.002 Byline: Shangyao Yan, Ching-Hui Tang Keywords: Stochastic programming; Gate assignment; Stochastic flight delay; Real-time gate assignment Abstract: To make good flight to gate assignments, not only do all the relevant constraints have to be considered, but stochastic flight delays that occur in actual operations also have to be taken into account. In past research, airport gate assignments and stochastic disturbances have often been handled in the planning and the real-time stages separately, meaning that the interrelationship between these stages, as affected by such delays, has been neglected. In this research, we develop a heuristic approach embedded in a framework designed to help the airport authorities make airport gate assignments that are sensitive to stochastic flight delays. The framework includes three components, a stochastic gate assignment model, a real-time assignment rule, and two penalty adjustment methods. The test results are based on data supplied by a Taiwan international airport, and show that the proposed framework performs better than the current manual assignment process and the traditional deterministic model. Author Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Chungli 32054, Taiwan Article History: Received 21 June 2005; Accepted 3 May 2006