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

Table 7

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

	Times (min:sec) for % aircraft occupancy
Configuration	—	20%	30%	40%	50%	60%	70%	80%	90%	100%
	50%	1:50	2:32	3:09	3:47	4:24	4:59	5:41	6:19	6:54
	95%	2:11	2:51	3:28	4:08	4:48	5:25	6:08	6:46	7:23
	STD DEV	0:10	0:11	0:12	0:13	0:14	0:15	0:16	0:16	0:17
	50%	1:54	2:29	3:05	3:42	4:15	4:51	5:30	6:06	6:42
	95%	2:11	2:51	3:26	4:06	4:39	5:14	5:55	6:31	7:06
	STD DEV	0:10	0:12	0:12	0:13	0:14	0:14	0:16	0:16	0:16
	50%	1:57	2:32	3:06	3:37	4:13	4:43	5:21	5:54	6:27
	95%	2:14	2:52	3:27	3:58	4:37	5:10	5:46	6:23	6:57
	STD DEV	0:10	0:12	0:13	0:13	0:14	0:14	0:15	0:16	0:16