Symmetrical design of strategy-pairs for enplaning and deplaning an airplane

Qiang, Shengjie; Jia, Bin; Jiang, Rui; Huang, Qingxia; Radwan, Essam; Gao, Ziyou; Wang, Yuqing

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.03.020

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“…This result is far from with simulation work done by [6,14], as they claimed that adopting the AW strategy could considerably reduce the deboarding time. Inconsistency comes from two main reasons.…”

Section: Boarding and Deboarding Timecontrasting

confidence: 59%

“…Taking the first boarding group for example, passengers were constrained to sit in the back of the cabin. When the It was seen in our experiments and other research, i.e., in references [3][4][5][6], that the BF strategy is not necessarily effective in reducing boarding time and is even detrimental with random boarding. It is argued in [3] that the BF strategy was ineffective because it caused local congestion in the airplane.…”

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confidence: 51%

“…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.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Seven strategies were selected, including Random, Free, Back-to-front, Window-to-aisle, Steffen, Steffen-lug, and CRBF (column rotated in a back to front order, see Section 2.3 for details). In addition, we evaluated two structured deboarding strategies proposed in [6,14], as the authors claimed that deplaning passengers in a structured manner reduces the deboarding time. Moreover, how the passengers' seat preference influences the free boarding time is another interest of our work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unstructured deplaning is the most used strategy adopted by airline companies, in which passengers leave the airplane without any instruction. It has been suggested in [6,14] that structured deplaning strategies may reduce the deplaning time. To what extent these structured deboarding strategies will quicken the deplaning process was also the focus of our attention.…”

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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 Timecontrasting

confidence: 59%