1. Mechanism behind phase transitions in airplane boarding process.
- Author
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Qiang, ShengJie, Jia, Bin, Huang, QingXia, and Gao, ZiYou
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PHASE transitions ,AIRLINE boarding procedures ,MONTE Carlo method ,STATISTICAL correlation ,DYNAMICAL systems - Abstract
A simple airplane boarding model is built much like an asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP). The dynamics of the model is constrained by local interference between passengers and global seat assignments for individuals. We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations by using a parallel update rule to determine quantities like boarding time and sequence correlation. Our results clarify the scaling behavior in boarding process and identify a critical value of arrival time interval for boarding time threshold. Three different phases (steady, intermediate and linear) with respect to the boarding time are distinguished and the mechanism behind phase transition is further discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2016
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