Experimental test of airplane boarding methods · HackerPapers discussions

Experimental test of airplane boarding methods — mentioned by ColinWright

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:43:02 GMT

This has been going on for over 2 1/2 years now. At that time we had this item submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419360 It looks like it's the same physicist, and the same algorithm. Further more, HN had pretty much exactly the same discussion. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. There's another submission from over a month ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790023 In that it's described how ... American Airlines undertook a two-year study to try and speed up boarding. The result: The airline has recently rolled out a new strategy—randomized boarding. I haven't…

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Experimental test of airplane boarding methods — mentioned by LiveTheDream

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:27:34 GMT

The source paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5211

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Experimental test of airplane boarding methods — mentioned by LiveTheDream

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:20:18 GMT

The paper itself is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5211

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