
Every airline passenger has to think about it because they squeeze in and climb over their peer flyer to find their seat and colon;
There must be a better way.
Now, it seems that the tests carried out on the simulated aircraft used in Hollywood movies have discovered this.
Instead of boarding in rows at a time, like many airlines, from the back of the plane to the front, this new method takes about half the time, each time only one person from a given line sits in the seat.
Jason Steffen, an astrophysicist at Badawi Fermilab, Illinois, proposed this method in 2008 after running computer simulations to find the most effective boarding technology.
The simulation shows that the best way is to start from the back, board each row of window seats on one side of the aircraft, and then mirror the image on the other side.
The rest of the window seats on the first side will follow from the back;
Then they walked on the second side;
Follow the same procedure as the middle seat and the last passage (
See illustration).
This approach is similar to the proposal made by Eitan Bachmat and Ben-colleagues in 2006, but in more detail
Negev Gurion University in Israel.
In Steffen's computer model, the strategy minimizes traffic jams in the aisles and allows multiple people to store their luggage at the same time.
"It spreads people around the length of the aisle," Steffen said . ".
"They will put everything away and let it go at the same time.
In 2008, Steffen published his model in the Journal of Air Transport Management, and then returned to his "daily work" in search of exoplanets ".
Before that, he almost forgot about the plane study, and when he received an email from Jon hochkis, Jon hochkis was a new file called "this and that"
"This is a program that answers all kinds of scientific questions that arise in people's daily lives," Hotchkiss said . ".
He wanted to make a film about the best way to get on the plane and wanted Steffen to board the plane as an expert commentator.
Steffen took the opportunity & colon;
"I said, hey, does anyone want to test my theory? Sure!
"They spent the day with 72 volunteers and Hollywood actors on a mock plane that has been used for movies like Kill Bill and Miss coincidence 2.
They checked the participants through five different boarding methods and colons;
Traditional backto-
In front, passengers begin boarding in the specified order from the rear upper right corner of the aircraft;
Board the plane with four rows of building blocks from the back to the front; the so-
Called "Wilma" method (
All window passengers first, no special order, then middle, then aisle);
The "Steffen" method;
Random boarding.
Surprisingly, the block boarding method, one of the most common methods used at real airports, is the worst.
It took passengers 6 minutes and 54 seconds to fill up the plane.
This approach performed the worst because passengers had to climb over each other to sit in the same row of seats.
"Within the block, there is one for every passenger. and-a-
"On average, you have to climb over half of the people," Steffen said . ".
"These seat disturbances are the reason to push them to the top.
They proved to be more important than I expected.
"Even random boarding is better than a block or back --to-
Four minutes, 44 seconds ago.
The Steffen method stands out in 3 minutes and 36 seconds.
"My model made the right prediction, and I think it made the prediction at a comfortable enough amplitude, and I think the result will continue," Steffen said . ".
The study "provides a representation that is closer to aircraft boarding than any computer simulation can achieve," said menx van den Brier, an optimization expert at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
"It is also good to know that their results are consistent with the results of the computer simulations that have been developed.
Steffen said by reducing the amount of time the aircraft is idling in the terminal, reducing the number of minutes of boarding time can save airlines millions of dollars a year.
But are real passengers-often traveling in groups or with children-really willing to use the most orderly queues?
"I believe that implementing our boarding method is actually more troublesome than many people may be worried about," Steffen said . ".
Magazine reference and colon; arxiv. org/abs/1108.