Reducing airplane boarding time by accounting for passengers' individual properties: A simulation based on cellular automaton

Qiang, Shengjie; Jia, Bin; Xie, Da; Gao, Ziyou

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2014.05.007

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“…Indeed, boarding the passenger in an exact order makes the above three strategies tolerant of the time fluctuations induced by sequence randomness, or in other words, the stability is achieved. Note from Figure 9a, the three strategies that saved the most time are the Steffen, Steffen-lug, and CRBF, which agrees well with the simulation work done by [5]. A common feature of these three strategies is that they define an exact sequence of passengers and every passenger has to board at a given position that is planned in advance.…”

Section: Boarding and Deboarding Timesupporting

confidence: 78%

“…The other is seat interference, which happens when a window or middle seat passenger is blocked by other passengers who are already sitting in the same half-row. Efforts have been made to reduce those two interferences in boarding time, and most of them are based on simulation works, either by discrete modeling [3][4][5][6] or by continuous modeling [7,8]. Various optimal boarding strategies are proposed to reduce boarding time.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition, new strategies are also proposed by using linear or nonlinear programming approaches [10,11] based on an assumption that a minimization of the number of interferences leads to a minimal boarding time. In [5,12], the authors emphasized the importance of luggage storage space in stowing the luggage, and they assigned seats to the passengers by considering the number of luggage pieces with which they were traveling.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…• Steffen-lug strategy: This method was first proposed in Reference [5] based on the Steffen strategy. The most prominent characteristic of this method is that the seats of passengers are assigned considering the number of luggage pieces they carry.…”

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“…• Steffen-lug strategy: This method was first proposed in Reference [5] based on the Steffen strategy.…”

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

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Optimally organizing passengers boarding/deboarding an airplane offers a potential way to reduce the airplane turn time. The main contribution of our work is that we evaluate seven boarding strategies and two structured deboarding strategies by using a surrogate experimental test. Instead of boarding a real or mocked airplane, we carried out the experiment by organizing 40 participants to board a school bus with ten rows of four seats, symmetrically distributed on a single, central aisle. Experimental results confirm that the optimized strategies, i.e., Steffen and Steffen-lug, are superior to the traditional ones, i.e., Back-to-front, Window-to-aisle, and Random in time-saving and stability. However, the two structured deboarding strategies failed to reduce the deboarding time, and this result strongly suggests the prerequisites of applying such strategies only when, on average, passengers have a large amount of luggage. Besides, we further carried out a questionnaire survey of participants' preferences on seat layout and discussed how those preferences influence the boarding time.

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Section: Boarding and Deboarding Timesupporting

confidence: 78%