Modeling Airplane Boarding Procedures

杨利霞

Modeling Airplane Boarding
Procedures
Bach Ha
Daniel Matheny
Spencer Tipping
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO
Advisor: Steven J. Smith
Summary
We describe two models that simulate the process of passengers boarding
an an aircraft and taking their seats. Using these models, we simulate common
boarding procedures on popular aircraft to analyze efficiency. The second
model is more ambitious and tries to model the situation more accurately,
but even the first one addresses the major problems involved in boarding an
airplane.
From running the simulations and analyzing the data, we find that the
fastest and most consistent procedures are outside-in and reverse-pyramid.
Both allow those closest to the windows to be seated first and proceed in
ward (though reverse-pyramid is slightly more complex). Reverse-pyramid is
slightly faster.