Des Model for Passenger Boarding

DES report

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DES model for passenger boarding

DES REPORT

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. EXPERIMENTATION 1

1.1 Strategies 1

1.2 Flight profiles 4

1.3 Experiments 5

1.4 Outputs of the model 6

1.5 Data Analysis 7

2. ANALYSIS OF RESULTS 9

2.1 One door strategies analysis 10

2.2 Two doors strategies analysis 11

2.3 Analysis of parameters influencing boarding times 14

2.3.1 Influence of hand luggage distribution 15

2.3.2 Influence of passengers travelling in groups. 16

2.4 Two operators checking the boarding cards 17

2.5 Overall comparison of boarding strategies 19

2.6 Impact of the limitation of room in the overhead bins 24

2.7 Validation of the results and comparison with non-allocated boarding 25

2.8 Conclusion 26

3. LIMITATIONS 29

3.1 Model and user interface limitations 29

3.2 Data quality limitations 30

4. FUTURE WORK 32

APPENDIX A: SIMULATED STRATEGIES 34

1door block 2 35

1door block 4 36

1door random 37

2DOORS BLOCK2 38

2DOORS BLOCK 4 39

2DOORS RANDOM 40

4.1 2 DOORS PYRAMID 41

APPENDIX B: STEPS TO RUN THE EXPERIMENTS 42

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1. Experimentation

Once the model and the user interface were finished, the experimentation stage started. Seven strategies were simulated in different situations. Three of those strategies were suitable for those airports where just one door of the aircraft could be used. The remaining four were appropriated for those in which both front and rear door could be used. In this section, the boarding strategies, the flight profiles and the experiments that were carried out are described.

1. Strategies

The selection of the strategies was based on company’s decisions. So, although much more strategies were described in the literature, most of them were not suitable and were excluded from the study. The constraints imposed by Company were:

* The number of groups in which the aircraft could be divided was four at the most. The reason for this limitation is the idea of not modifying the current system of dividing the passengers in four groups when they check in. Many of the theoretically faster