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Title	Analytical approach to solve the problem of aircraft passenger boarding during the coronavirus pandemic
Type	Journal article
Authors	Soolaki, M. and Schultz, M.
Abstract	The corona pandemic significantly changes the processes of aircraft and passenger handling at the airport. In our contribution, we focus on the time-critical process of aircraft boarding, where regulations regarding physical distances between passengers will significantly increase boarding time. The passenger behaviour is implemented in a field-validated stochastic cellular automata model, which is extended by a module to evaluate the transmission risk. We propose an improved boarding process by considering that most of the passengers travel together and should be boarded and seated as a group. The NP-hard seat allocation of groups with minimized individual interactions between groups is solved with a genetic algorithm. Then, the improved seat allocation is used to derive an associated boarding sequence aiming at both short boarding times and a low risk of virus transmission. Our results show that the consideration of groups will significantly contribute to a faster boarding (reduction of time by about 60%) and less transmission risk (reduced by 85%) compared to the standard random boarding procedures applied in the pandemic scenario.
Keywords	Aircraft boarding
	Virus transmission
	COVID19 Pandemic requirements
	Cabin operations
	Passenger groups
	Optimization model
	Genetic algorithm
Article number	102931
Journal	Transportation Research Part C
Journal citation	124
ISSN	0968-090X
	1879-2359
Year	2021
Publisher	Elsevier
Accepted author manuscript	TRC- Analytical approach to solve the problem of aircraft.pdf License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.102931
Web address (URL)	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X20308251
Published in print	Mar 2021
Published online	01 Jan 2021

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