This stochastic experiment models the simultaneous boarding of up to 1000 airplane passengers and compares different pre-sorting of passengers to benchmark the performance based on pre-defined metrics.
Computer Modelling • Full-Stack Software Development • Data Visualization • Javascript • D3.js
Random sorting: this sorting performed worse than others yet ranked among the best overall because of the practicality of not having to sort passengers.
Zone Sorting: This middle-ground approach ranks better than random sorting while being much less cumbersome than individually sorting passengers. This answers the question as to why airlines sort this way.
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The simplified passenger boarding simulation was built using the D3.js library.
Time: The numbers in the circles represent time till the next action
Blue: passengers in the isle queue
Green: passengers stowing luggage and settling into their seat.
Red: Passengers who once boarded, had to get out of their seat to allow an adjacent passenger to sit down.
Orange: Passengers who had no such conflict as explained above (Red)
A fully loaded plane
