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Airlines Turn to AI to Allocate Gates and Cut Waiting Times
(SOURCE: BBC)
Next time you're running at full tilt towards your airport gate, spare a thought for the airline staff who made sure that that gate was actually available.
Gate allocation is a surprisingly complex task.
"With 15 gates and 10 airplanes, there are more than 570 billion possibilities," says Dr Joseph Doetsch, who has been working on the problem of gate allocation as quantum computing lead at Lufthansa Industry Solutions.
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