An aircraft boarding model with the group behavior and the quantity of luggage

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

“…The above studies focused on exploring how to enhance the efficiency, so the impacts of strategies on each passenger's motion during the boarding process were not studied. To depict the passenger's motion, Tang et al [20] proposed a pedestrian-following model to explore each passenger's boarding behavior; Tang et al [21] introduced the passenger's individual property into the boarding model and proposed a model to study the impacts of the individual property on the passenger's motion behavior; Tang et al [22] proposed a model to explore the effects of group behavior on the passenger's motion behavior and the boarding efficiency, and later they further studied the effects of the luggage quantity on the passenger's motion behavior and the boarding efficiency [23].…”

“…However, Tang et al [23] did not introduce the luggage quantity and group behavior into the strategy. In fact, the two factors may be considered when the administrators organize the boarding process.…”

“…In this paper, we propose an extended strategy accounting for the luggage quantity and group behavior to study each passenger's motion behavior and the effects of the proposed strategy on the efficiency. The boarding model [23] considered the quantity of luggage and the group behavior, but it did not design a boarding strategy according to the two factors, so Tang et al [23] did not validate whether the two factors optimize the boarding strategy. The proposed strategy considers the two factors, and the numerical results show that the efficiency under the proposed strategy is prominently greater than the one under the model [23], so the proposed strategy is reasonable.…”

“…The boarding model [23] considered the quantity of luggage and the group behavior, but it did not design a boarding strategy according to the two factors, so Tang et al [23] did not validate whether the two factors optimize the boarding strategy. The proposed strategy considers the two factors, and the numerical results show that the efficiency under the proposed strategy is prominently greater than the one under the model [23], so the proposed strategy is reasonable. Comparing with the strategies, the proposed strategy can reproduce the effects of the quantity of luggage and the group behavior on the efficiency since other strategies did not consider the two factors.…”

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

“…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.…”