Airplane Boarding Method for Passenger Groups When Using Apron Buses
| Autor: | Camelia Delcea, Mostafa Salari, Liliana Craciun, Liviu-Adrian Cotfas, R. John Milne, Anca Gabriela Molanescu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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General Computer Science Computer science Airplane boarding ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences mixed integer programming Airplane 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Doors apron buses General Materials Science Integer programming Simulation group boarding 010308 nuclear & particles physics General Engineering agent-based modeling Terminal (electronics) 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering business two-door boarding lcsh:TK1-9971 |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 18019-18035 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
| Popis: | This paper proposes a method for reducing the time to complete the boarding of a two-door airplane when its passengers are transported from the airport terminal to the airplane using two apron buses. In contrast to other methods that assign passengers to apron buses, our method considers groups of passengers traveling together (e.g. families). In particular, we propose a mixed integer programming (MIP) model that assigns each group of passengers (including each single-passenger group) to one of the two apron buses based on their seating assignments. We assume that all seats on the apron buses and the two-door airplane are occupied. We conduct stochastic simulation experiments with the proposed MIP-based method and with a baseline method that assigns groups of passengers with seats furthest from one of the airplane doors to the first apron bus and assigns remaining groups to the second apron bus. Numerical results indicate that the proposed MIP-based method reduces the boarding time by up to 27.31% when compared with the baseline approach. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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