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Title	COVID-19: Passenger Boarding and Disembarkation
Authors	Schultz, M., Soolaki, M., Bakhshian, E., Salari, M. and Fuchte, J
Type	Conference paper
Abstract	Boarding and disembarking an aircraft is a time-critical airport ground handling process. Operations in the confined aircraft cabin must also reduce the potential risk of virus transmission to passengers under current COVID- 19 boundary conditions. Passenger boarding will generally be regulated by establishing passenger sequences to reduce the influence of negative interactions between passengers (e.g., congestion in the aisle). This regulation cannot be implemented to the same extent when disembarking at the end of a flight. In our approach, we generate an optimized seat allocation that takes into account both the distance constraints of COVID-19 regulations and groups of passengers travelling together (e.g., families or couples). This seat allocation minimizes the potential transmission risk, while at the same time we calculate improved entry sequences for passenger groups (fast boarding). We show in our simulation environment that boarding and disembarkation times can be significantly reduced even if a physical distance between passenger groups is required. To implement our proposed sequences during real disembarkation, we propose an active information system that incorporates the aircraft cabin lighting system. Thus, the lights above each group member could be turned on when that passenger group is requested to disembark.
Year	2021
Conference	Fourteenth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2021)
Publisher	Fourteenth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2021)
Published	Dec 2021
Book title	Proceedings of the Fourteenth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2021), Virtual Event, 20–23 September 2021
Web address (URL)	http://www.atmseminar.org

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