Symmetrical Design Of Strategy-Pairs For Enplaning And Deplaning An Airplane

Keywords

Airplane management; Cellular automaton; Enplaning/deplaning; Strategy

Abstract

Enplaning and deplaning processes are two main activities that passengers experience in an airplane. They are also the main factors contributing to the airplane turn time. Thus, both processes need to be carefully considered when designing a new strategy. The main contribution of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we propose a symmetrical design of deplaning strategies to match three typical grouped enplaning strategies (back-to-front, windows-to-aisle and reverse pyramid), in which the groups are organized in a LIFO (Last In First Out) manner. Secondly, we present an integrated cellular automaton model to describe the dynamic characteristics of passengers in the enplaning and deplaning processes. Numerical evaluation results indicate that the proposed windows-to-aisle and reverse pyramid strategies perform better in the following aspects: (i) the total operation time decreases; (ii) the two strategies are less sensitive to the load condition, e.g., luggage distribution and cabin occupancy rate; (iii) passengers' satisfaction is enhanced since both individual waiting time and processing time lower down; (iv) the two strategies are fairer for the passengers since the difference among the groups remarkably shrinks.

Publication Date

7-1-2016

Publication Title

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volume

54

Number of Pages

52-60

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.03.020

Socpus ID

84961914028 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84961914028

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