关键词: 航空运输, 登机效率, 元胞自动机, 座椅设施, 登机干扰

Abstract:

By optimizing the boarding sequence of passengers, the boarding time as well as the flight turnaround time can be effectively reduced. Actually, cabin infrastructure optimization provides another promising way of improving the boarding efficiency, such as using the Side-slip seats to improve the passing capacity. Such a seat could provide a wider aisle space, and thus reduces the aisle interferences. To what extent the new concept seat can improve the boarding efficiency is the main concern of this paper. Therefore, on the basis of mastering the heterogeneity characteristics of passengers' boarding behavior and the interactions between passengers and cabin environment, a passenger boarding model is proposed based on cellular automaton. Then, the simulation model is used to analyze the dynamic characteristics of passenger flow under different boarding scenes. Sensitivity analysis between boarding time and boarding influencing factors are conducted to comprehensively evaluate the effectiveness of seats. The results show that the Side- slip seat can significantly improve the boarding efficiency. Meanwhile, it absorbs the interference caused by uncertain factors such as the variation of luggage distribution, unskilled operation and so on.

Key words: air transportation, aircraft boarding efficiency, cellular automaton, seating facilities, boarding interference