An Extended Boarding Strategy Accounting for the Luggage Quantity and Group Behavior

Tang, Tie-Qiao; Yang, Shaopeng; Chen, Liang

doi:10.1155/2019/8908935

Cited by 8 publications

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“…The authors state that the quantity of luggage may make each passenger's boarding behavior more complex, while the group behavior has positive effects on boarding process. Similar results are obtained by Tang et al [33].…”

Section: Literature Review Of Boarding Methodssupporting

confidence: 91%

Airplane Boarding Method for Passenger Groups When Using Apron Buses

et al. 2020

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This paper proposes a method for reducing the time to complete the boarding of a two-door airplane when its passengers are transported from the airport terminal to the airplane using two apron buses. In contrast to other methods that assign passengers to apron buses, our method considers groups of passengers traveling together (e.g. families). In particular, we propose a mixed integer programming (MIP) model that assigns each group of passengers (including each single-passenger group) to one of the two apron buses based on their seating assignments. We assume that all seats on the apron buses and the two-door airplane are occupied. We conduct stochastic simulation experiments with the proposed MIP-based method and with a baseline method that assigns groups of passengers with seats furthest from one of the airplane doors to the first apron bus and assigns remaining groups to the second apron bus. Numerical results indicate that the proposed MIP-based method reduces the boarding time by up to 27.31% when compared with the baseline approach. INDEX TERMS Airplane boarding, group boarding, apron buses, agent-based modeling, two-door boarding, mixed integer programming.

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Section: Literature Review Of Boarding Methodssupporting

confidence: 91%