A Simplified Model to Assess the Influence of the Configuration of Commercial Aircraft on Boarding and Deboarding

Table 6

Complete comparison of boarding times for the three aircraft configurations using the random boarding strategy for different % of aircraft occupancy.

	Times (min:sec) for % aircraft occupancy
Configuration	—	20%	30%	40%	50%	60%	70%	80%	90%	100%
	50%	2:03	2:52	3:41	4:33	5:27	6:20	7:26	8:28	9:31
	95%	2:26	3:22	4:19	5:14	6:10	7:01	8:13	9:18	10:25
	STD DEV	0:13	0:17	0:20	0:22	0:23	0:25	0:28	0:31	0:30
	50%	2:01	2:46	3:32	4:19	5:08	5:56	6:51	7:48	8:44
	95%	2:26	3:12	4:02	4:56	50:45	6:39	7:36	8:35	9:33
	STD DEV	0:13	0:15	0:18	0:20	0:22	0:25	0:26	0:28	0:29
	50%	2:03	2:41	3:22	4:03	4:42	5:26	6:11	6:56	7:40
	95%	2:23	3:08	3:53	4:32	5:15	6:02	6:50	7:37	8:19
	STD DEV	0:12	0:15	0:17	0:17	0:19	0:21	0:21	0:23	0:23