Analysis of airplane boarding times

Operations Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 499-513

  Bachmat, Eitan ^a   Berend, Daniel ^a   Sapir, Luba ^a   Skiena, Steven ^b   Stolyarov, Natan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE BOARDINGS; AIRPLANE DESIGNS; CLOSED FORMS; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATIONS; MODEL YIELDS;

EID: 65349095210     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0630     Document Type: Article

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