A fast airplane boarding strategy using online seat assignment based on passenger classification

Notomista, Gennaro; Selvaggio, Mario; Sbrizzi, Fiorentina; Maio, Gabriella Di; Grazioso, Stanislao; Botsch, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.02.012

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“…and design an optimal strategy. Notomista [12] used the online seat assignment to develop a fast boarding strategy. Qiang et al [13] proposed a CA (cellular automaton) model to study the boarding process.…”

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

Tang

Yang

Chen

2019

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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The reasonable boarding strategy can enhance the efficiency, so how to enhance the boarding efficiency has been a hot topic in the air transportation. In this paper, we incorporate the luggage quantity and the passenger’s group behavior into the boarding model, and develop an extended strategy to explore each passenger’s boarding behavior and the influences of the proposed strategy on the boarding efficiency. The numerical results indicate that the proposed strategy can relieve the congestions at the wicket and in the cabin, eliminate the seat conflicts, and reduce the time of handling luggage and the boarding time. This shows that the proposed strategy can enhance the boarding efficiency. The results can help administrators organize the boarding pattern to enhance the efficiency.

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

Tang

Yang

Chen

2019

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…We should also address here that this paper has the following limitations: First, the number of participants in our experiment (40) is smaller than a real airplane with about 150 passengers; second, some of the new proposed boarding strategies were not tested, such as using online seat assignment [17]. In view of the above limitations, we will in the future redesign an experiment to test various boarding or deboarding strategies by organizing a large number of participants.…”

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

2017

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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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“…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.…”

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“…A middle seat is the most "highly disliked" choice. For better simulation of the considered situations, an agent-based model in NetLogo [10] was created and calibrated in accordance with the on-the-field observations made throughout the literature [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. The BehaviourSpace tool offered by NetLogo has been used for simulations [19].…”

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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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A fast airplane boarding strategy using online seat assignment based on passenger classification

Cited by 58 publications

References 10 publications

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

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

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

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

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