Evaluation of Airplane Boarding/Deboarding Strategies: A Surrogate Experimental Test

Qiang, Shengjie; Jia, Bin; Huang, Qingxia

doi:10.3390/sym9100222

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Additionally, a minimum distance characteristic is included here that provides the passengers the needed space to walk down the aisle, in normal conditions, and may affect the overall performance of the methods [35]. The time measured in ticks is consistent with the field trials made by the authors of Reference [36]. The delay time from seat interferences is a potential delay of the overall boarding time but the total time to board is not going to increase with the exact sum of all seat-interference delay times.…”

Section: Seat-row Airplane Number Of Rowsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Investigating the Random Seat Boarding Method without Seat Assignments with Common Boarding Practices Using an Agent-Based Modeling

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Research related to creating new and improved airplane boarding methods has seen continuous advancement, in recent years, while most of the airline companies have remained committed to the traditional boarding methods. Among the most-used boarding methods, around the world, are back-to-front and random boarding with and without assigned seats. While the other boarding methods used in practice possess strict rules for passengers’ behavior, random without assigned seats is dependent on the passengers own way of choosing the “best” seats. The aim of this paper is to meticulously model the passengers’ behavior, especially, in random boarding without assigned seats and to test its efficiency in terms of boarding time and interferences, in comparison with the other commonly-adopted methods (random boarding with assigned seats, window-middle-aisle (WilMA), back-to-front, reverse pyramid, etc.). One of the main challenges in our endeavor was the identification of the real human passengers’ way of reasoning, when selecting their seats, and creating a model in which the agents possess preferences and make decisions, as close to those decisions made by the human passengers, as possible. We model their choices based on completed questionnaires from three hundred and eighty-seven human subjects. This paper describes the resulting agent-based model and results from the simulations.

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Section: Seat-row Airplane Number Of Rowsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Investigating the Random Seat Boarding Method without Seat Assignments with Common Boarding Practices Using an Agent-Based Modeling

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“…As a reduction in the boarding time [3,4,13,[21][22][23][24][25][26] was one of the main motivations in developing new boarding methods, the literature associated with this field can be divided into several categories based on the main issues taken into account when employing a new boarding method, such as: passenger movement [21,27]; the presence of carry-on hand luggage [13,16,21,23,24]; seat selection [9,27]; aircraft characteristics, e.g., the number of rows or aircraft type [9,13,22,28,29]; aircraft occupancy [13,16,17,25,28,30,31]; costs [3]; the existence of pre-boarding areas [4]; seat and aisle interferences [18,32]; etc.…”

Section: Summary Of One-door Boarding Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Testing New Methods for Boarding a Partially Occupied Airplane Using Apron Buses

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The use of apron buses has become a common practice at many European airports. Previous studies related to airplane boarding rarely apply when apron buses are used, leaving airlines with no well-researched option except to use the random boarding method. In this paper, we test the time to complete boarding a two-door airplane using various boarding methods with two apron buses. These methods were inspired by the classical outside-in, back-to-front, and reverse-pyramid methods considering the limited number of boarding groups corresponding to the limited number of apron buses used for transporting passengers from the terminal to the aircraft. Unlike earlier publications, we test these methods under partial aircraft occupancy. Furthermore, we test the boarding methods under conditions involving: different passenger occupancy rates, different luggage situations, and with two types of seating assignments-random and based upon passenger seating preferences-by considering the advantages brought by the symmetric layout of the aircraft. Experimental results indicate that the best performing method can reduce the boarding time by up to 38.6% compared to the time resulting from the random boarding method. When the airplane is partially occupied, the best performing methods are reverse pyramid-A, hybrid-A, and hybrid-B, all with similar performances.

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“…Two main types of interferences are acknowledged in the literature: aisle and seat interferences [20,31,32]. The aisle interference is defined as the situation in which a passenger blocks the aisle during the boarding time.…”

Section: Types Of Interferencesmentioning

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Are Seat and Aisle Interferences Affecting the Overall Airplane Boarding Time? An Agent-Based Approach

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Seat and aisle interferences are assumed to be linked with a prolonged boarding time along with several other aspects related to airplane boarding such as: luggage handling, luggage distribution inside the cabin, number of passengers, passengers’ physique characteristics, group behavior, seat selection, aircraft occupancy, aircraft design, etc. Based on these assumptions, a series of proposed boarding methods, underlying their efficiency starting from the absence or limited presence of these types of interferences, are proposed. The present paper aims to analyze whether the different types of seat or aisle interferences do matter for the overall boarding time by considering 24 boarding methods proposed in the literature. A series of specific elements related to interferences, such as: the average waiting time, the average number of interferences based on their types, and the average number of interference-affected passengers, have been considered. Also, the presence of multiple interferences in different parts of the aircraft has been analyzed in order to offer a complete picture of the considered situation. An agent-based model in NetLogo 6.0.4, fed with values form field trials within the literature is created and used for simulations, which enables the agents to act like real passengers involved in an airplane boarding process.

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Evaluation of Airplane Boarding/Deboarding Strategies: A Surrogate Experimental Test

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Investigating the Random Seat Boarding Method without Seat Assignments with Common Boarding Practices Using an Agent-Based Modeling

Investigating the Random Seat Boarding Method without Seat Assignments with Common Boarding Practices Using an Agent-Based Modeling

Testing New Methods for Boarding a Partially Occupied Airplane Using Apron Buses

Are Seat and Aisle Interferences Affecting the Overall Airplane Boarding Time? An Agent-Based Approach

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