Aircraft boarding strategy based on cellular automata

Aircraft boarding strategies seek to minimize the boarding time.This paper provided simulations and analyses of aircraft boarding strategies using a hyperbolic model to describe conflicts in the aisle when passengers are placing baggage in the overhead bins.An aisle-conflict model and a seat-conflict model are used to describe passenger motion based on a cellular automata model.Simulations for seven strategies and twenty-one policies show that some strategies do not improve the boarding efficiency and an orderly strategy is not necessarily better than a disordered one.On the contrary,random boarding may be the simplest but most effective method.