Agent-based Modelling of Aircraft Boarding Methods

Serter Iyigunlu, Clinton Fookes, Prasad Yarlagadda

2014

Abstract

We implemented six different boarding strategies (Wilma, Steffen, Reverse Pyramid, Random, Blocks and By letter) in order to investigate boarding times for Boeing 777 and Airbus 380 aircraft. We also introduce three new boarding methods to find the optimum boarding strategy. Our models explicitly simulate the behaviour of groups of people travelling together and we explicitly simulate the timing to store their luggage as part of the boarding process. Results from the simulation demonstrates the Reverse Pyramid method is the best boarding method for Boeing 777, and the Steffen method is the best boarding method for Airbus 380. For the new suggested boarding methods, aisle first boarding method is the best boarding strategy for Boeing 777 and row arrangement method is the best boarding strategy for Airbus 380. Overall best boarding strategy is aisle first boarding method for Boeing 777 and Steffen method for Airbus 380.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Iyigunlu S., Fookes C. and Yarlagadda P. (2014). Agent-based Modelling of Aircraft Boarding Methods . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-038-3, pages 148-154. DOI: 10.5220/0005033601480154

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech14,
author={Serter Iyigunlu and Clinton Fookes and Prasad Yarlagadda},
title={Agent-based Modelling of Aircraft Boarding Methods},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2014},
pages={148-154},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005033601480154},
isbn={978-989-758-038-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Agent-based Modelling of Aircraft Boarding Methods
SN - 978-989-758-038-3
AU - Iyigunlu S.
AU - Fookes C.
AU - Yarlagadda P.
PY - 2014
SP - 148
EP - 154
DO - 10.5220/0005033601480154