Mechanism behind phase transitions in airplane boarding process

ShengJie Qiang, Bin Jia, QingXia Huang and ZiYou Gao
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ShengJie Qiang: MOE Key Laboratory for Urban Transportation, Complex Systems Theory and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Bin Jia: MOE Key Laboratory for Urban Transportation, Complex Systems Theory and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
QingXia Huang: MOE Key Laboratory for Urban Transportation, Complex Systems Theory and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
ZiYou Gao: MOE Key Laboratory for Urban Transportation, Complex Systems Theory and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2016, vol. 27, issue 06, 1-12

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.

Keywords: Airplane boarding; critical value; phase transitions; scaling behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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