Browsing HVL Open by Author "Steiner, Albert"
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Let the fast passengers wait: Boarding an airplane takes shorter time when passengers with the most bin luggage enter first
Erland, Sveinung; Bachmat, Eitan; Steiner, Albert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Airlines usually organize the passenger queue by letting certain groups of passengers enter the airplane in a specific order. The total boarding time of such airplane boarding policies can be estimated and compared by a ... -
Lorentzian geometry and variability reduction in airplane boarding: Slow passengers first outperforms random boarding
Erland, Sveinung; Kaupužs, Jevgenijs; Steiner, Albert; Bachmat, Eitan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Airlines use different boarding policies to organize the queue of passengers waiting to enter the airplane. We analyze three policies in the many-passenger limit by a geometric representation of the queue position and row ...