Optimal boarding method for airline passengers

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 146-150

  Steffen, Jason H ^a  

^a NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Operations; Optimization; Passenger boarding

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 43549099259     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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