Dynamic change of aircraft seat condition for fast boarding |
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| Institution: | 1. Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125, Naples, Italy;2. Geven SpA, Industrial Area Nola Marigliano, 80035, Naples, Italy;1. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Department of Production Engineering and Systems, University Campus, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil;2. Federal Technological University of Paraná, Medianeira Campus, Avenue Brazil, 4232 CEP 85884-000, PO Box 271, Medianeira, PR, Brazil;3. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Informatics and Statistics Department, University Campus, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil;4. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Landbergstraat 15, 2628CE Delft, The Netherlands;1. Dep. of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125, Napoli, Italy;2. Dep. of Engineering, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Aversa, 81100, Caserta, Italy;1. Network Management Research Unit (DECMA/INO/NET), EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre, Centre du Bois des Bordes, 91222, Brétigny/Orge, France;2. Operations Research and Air Traffic Management, Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. (SWISS), Zurich, Switzerland;1. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE, Delft, the Netherlands;2. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, P.O. Box 7700, 1117 ZL, Schiphol, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Aircraft boarding is a process mainly impacted by the boarding sequence, individual passenger behavior and the amount of hand luggage. Whereas these aspects are widely addressed in scientific research and considered in operational improvements, the influence of infrastructural changes is only focused upon in the context of future aircraft design. The paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the innovative approach of a Side-Slip Seat, which allows passengers to pass each other during boarding. The seat holds the potential to reduce the boarding time by approx. 20%, even considering operational constraints, such as passenger conformance to the proposed boarding strategy. A validated stochastic boarding model is extended to analyze the impact of the Side-Slip Seat. The implementation of such fundamental change inside the aircraft cabin demands for adapted boarding strategies, in order to cover all the benefits that accompany this new dynamic seating approach. To reasonably identify efficient strategies, an evolutionary algorithm is used to systematically optimize boarding sequences. As a result, the evolutionary algorithm depicts that operationally relevant boarding strategies implementing the Side-Slip Seat should differentiate between the left and the right side of the aisle, instead of the current operationally preferred boarding from the back to the front. |
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| Keywords: | Aircraft boarding Stochastic simulation Infrastructural changes Evolutionary algorithm Optimization |
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