On the basis of basic European legal concepts on collecting air passengers’ data, as an important mechanism in fight against terrorism and illegal immigration, authors point to provisions Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 newly established IT authorisation system, application which guarantees more comprehensive security checks visa-free third-country nationals (non-EU citizens) when they, passengers, w...

There have been 10 specific "wheel-well" passenger stowaway flights (the wheel-well area was entered just before take-off) documented in the N.Y. Times between 1947-1993. Five stowaways survived flights encompassing altitudes as high as 39,000 feet, with six dying in the process (one flight had two stowaways, one fatal, one surviving). Three Douglas DC-8 and four Boeing 707 aircraft, plus a Car...

Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo optimization algorithm and a computer simulation, I find the passenger ordering which minimizes the time required to board the passengers onto an airplane. The model that I employ assumes that the time that a passenger requires to load his or her luggage is the dominant contribution to the time needed to completely fill the aircraft. The optimal boarding strateg...

On 9 October the UK government announced that “enhanced screening” for Ebola virus disease will be implemented at Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar terminals. Details of how this will be done are not yet available, but the objectives presumably are to identify people arriving from Sierra Leone, Guinea, or Liberia whomay have been exposed to Ebola, assess whether they have symptoms cons...

The focus of this thesis is to include the passengers and their behavior inside the train timetable design. This is done through three main objectives: timetable design based on passenger satisfaction, exploitation of hybrid cyclicity and choice based revenue optimization. At first, a new Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem is introduced into the planning horizon of the passenger railwa...

In a tall building with multiple elevators, it is a notoriously di cult task to control the elevators in the most e cient manner [1].The system proposed in this paper contains two key ideas. First, it continuously generates dispatch functions by adaptation to changes in passenger tra c. Second, it tries to reduce passengers' waiting time by multiple elevator allocation when it is expected that ...

easyJet is the UK largest airline, in terms of ATMs and passengers carried. In it 2008 Annual Report and Accounts it reported operating a fleet of 165 aircraft, flying a total of 380 routes between 100 European and African airports. Over the last 12 months, easyJet has carried 45 million passengers – and as such, it will be significantly affected by the outcome of this consultation and has a co...