The raison d’etre for the air transportation system is the movement of passengers and cargo. Consumer information for airline passengers and regulatory consumer protection of airline services provide measures of performance using the percentage of on-time flights, and the percentage of cancelled flights. Researchers have shown that these “flight-based” metrics are a poor proxy for measuring the...

Delay management for public transport consists of deciding whether vehicles should wait for delayed transferring passengers, with the objective of minimizing the overall passenger discomfort. We model the underlying transportation network as a directed acyclic graph, where edges represent trains, and weighted paths represent passenger flows. Given initial delays of some of the passenger paths, ...

This paper is the second of two papers entitled “Airline Planning Benchmark Problems”, aimed at developing benchmark data that can be used to stimulate innovation in airline planning, in particular, in flight schedule design and fleet assignment. The former has, to date, been under-represented in the optimization literature, due in part to the difficulty of obtaining data that adequately reflec...

OBJECTIVE The history and etiology of airline passenger misconduct are discussed and relevant medico-legal and management implications reviewed. METHOD The medical literature was reviewed and supplemented with internet searches for relevant information. Organizations including the Federal Aviation Administration, International Air Transport Association, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, ...

Disruptions in airline operations can result in infeasibilities in aircraft and passenger schedules. Airlines typically recover aircraft schedules and disruptions in passenger itineraries sequentially. However, passengers are severely affected by disruptions and recovery decisions. In this paper, we present a mathematical formulation for the integrated aircraft and passenger recovery problem th...

As occupant protection offered by new passenger vehicles has improved, there has been growing concern about the harm that some vehicle designs may inflict on occupants of other vehicles with which they collide. Preceding analyses of crash statistics have clearly demonstrated the incompatibility between passenger sedan cars (PS) and pick-up trucks (PU) involved in side impact crashes in British ...

Integration of Latvia in the Common European Market and its joining the EU has highlighted new demands to passengers’ transportation – high mobility, inter-modality, comfort observing of passengers’ rights as well as new requirements to the interaction of transport and environment. It is impossible to exercise complete account of all these requirements without a systematic approach and applying...

PURPOSE To develop and compare effective strategies for depleting graft-derived passenger leukocytes that include antigen-presenting cells from corneal buttons and to assess the effectiveness of this strategy in promoting graft survival using a high-risk (HR) model of corneal transplantation. METHODS Corneal buttons harvested from C57BL/6 mice were used in three ex vivo strategies of passenge...

The airport terminal with high numbers of occupied passengers has potentially become risk region for aerosol transmission COVID-19. In this paper, the Eulerian-Lagrangian approach and realizable k–ε turbulence model is used to numerically simulate airflow organization when move slowly in a line. During period, evaporation also enrolled as it key factor influencing particle size distribution at ...