Impact of biometric and anthropometric characteristics of passengers on aircraft safety and performance

Melis, Damien J.; Silva, Jose M.; Yeun, Richard C.K.

doi:10.1080/01441647.2017.1396264

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“…Concerning the research directions of "Travel and transport" and "Health", including more specifically the issues of security, technology, or healthcare, airports and directly related companies can benefit from our findings by identifying the issues that most concern tourism consumers and thus adopt measures and resources in their facilities and services to best meet their clients' needs and expectations (Melis et al, 2018). In this domain, adopting new biometric or biosecurity technologies is a central issue (Trip & Badulescu, 2022).…”

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Understanding tourism consumer behavior using biometric technologies: bibliographic review and research agenda

Ruiz-Lacaci

2024

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Recent technological advances, particularly in biometrics, have significantly impacted the tourism industry. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, these technologies have grown rapidly, posing challenges and opportunities in utilizing the resulting data. This study aims to develop a research agenda concerning biometrics in tourism consumer behavior, detailing what biometric data entails and outlining its diverse applications. Through a bibliographic review of 422 recent papers, employing machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, we extracted keywords, topics, and frequencies using the methodological approach of corpus linguistics and latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm. The results identified 26 topics, including “KPIs”,” Techniques”, “Personalization”, “Health”, and “Travel and transport”. Furthermore, we observed that the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted the tourism sector, with “Health” present in four categories. The practical implications of our study suggest that companies can find the issues that most concern the tourism consumer in the lines of research presented in the research agenda, paying particular attention to the lines developed in the research agenda involving “personalization”, "travel and transport" and "health".

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Understanding tourism consumer behavior using biometric technologies: bibliographic review and research agenda

Ruiz-Lacaci

2024

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“…Looking at Equations 2.6 and 2.7, it becomes evident that if the assumed Gaussian distribution is incorrect, either due to the mean or due to the standard deviation, or even both being wrong, significant inaccuracies may arise. Studies have shown that the increased incidence of excessive weight of the population, unaccounted for by updates to standard weights, has potentially caused significant monetary losses due to excessive fuel consumption [19,20].…”

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“…The flaws of such design are evident; the assumption that aircraft performance is tolerant to minor weight uncertainty couldn´t be farther from the truth. Even minor uncertainties arising from changes in the biometric and anthropometric characteristics of passengers can have tremendous effects on aircraft performance and safety [19,20]. If less than minor uncertainties arise, such as due to unrecorded loading, the effects can be severely aggravated; the pilots will incorrectly calculate the V speeds, leading to a lack of performance during takeoff, which may lead to a runway overrun, even if CG position is within limits.…”

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Preliminary development of an onboard weight and balance estimator for commercial aircraft

Chaves

Silvestre

Gamboa

2018

Aerospace Science and Technology

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Self‐interest, ethical and environmental considerations of air traveler weight policies

Tolkach,

Pratt,

Masiero

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Journal of Tourism Research

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There is ongoing debate about whether airlines should charge passengers based on their weight. This study examines the ethics of three policies by surveying 1012 US air travelers: A Standard policy with a uniform price irrespective of the weight. A Threshold policy with a penalty if the body weight exceeds 160 pounds (72.6 kg). And a Unit‐of‐Body‐Weight policy with an individual price based on body and baggage weight. The study demonstrates levels of acceptance of these policies by different segments of passengers across various normative ethical theories. Younger generations were more accepting of alternatives to the current standard policy. Self‐interest was evident as a major influence of respondents' views. The core of the theoretical contribution highlights the importance of a differentiated view on, and separation of ethical and environmental issues in tourism research, as it shows, that the more environmentally sustainable choice may not be the more ethical one.

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Impact of biometric and anthropometric characteristics of passengers on aircraft safety and performance

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

Understanding tourism consumer behavior using biometric technologies: bibliographic review and research agenda

Understanding tourism consumer behavior using biometric technologies: bibliographic review and research agenda

Preliminary development of an onboard weight and balance estimator for commercial aircraft

Self‐interest, ethical and environmental considerations of air traveler weight policies

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