With most major airlines operating a hub-and-spoke system and partnering with other airlines to offer code share flights, more and more passengers are required to make at least one connection before reaching their final destination. These trends in the airline industry have increased the percentage of transfer passengers. In order to minimize the number of missed connections and offer customers...

e-mail: [email protected] Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology which provides automatic identification and real time data acquisition capabilities without requiring additional human resources. This paper presents a control system for the embarkation/ disembarkation of passengers and vehicles on/from ferries, supported by RFID technology. A basic model of a RFID control system i...

Abstract: This paper aims to develop a mathematical model to analyze the passenger waiting time in an intermodal station in which intercity transit system served with feeder buses. Passengers are categorized into two groups, named scheduled and random, respectively. The analytic model is developed for quantifying the relationships of passenger waiting time to reliability of feeder bus services ...

The date was January 2, 1999. A large snowstorm had slammed into Detroit that afternoon, stranding a number of Northwest Airlines airplanes on snow-covered taxiways and tarmacs. Many of the more than 7000 passengers returning from New Year’s vacations could not deplane. Some waited as many as eleven hours. Few of the planes contained enough food and beverages for the affected passengers, and ma...

We study the fluctuation of the number of riding passengers in a few shuttle buses that pass each other freely. We present a dynamical model of the shuttle buses that takes into account the maximum capacity of a bus. The dynamics of the buses is expressed in terms of a coupled nonlinear map with noise. The number of passengers carried by a bus and the time headway between buses exhibit complex ...

We have been developing a mobile passenger support system for public transport. Passengers can make their travel plans and purchase necessary tickets by accessing databases via the system. After starting the travel, a mobile terminal checks the travel schedule of its user by accessing several databases and gathering various kinds of information. In this application field, many kinds of data mus...

Many strategic planning models have been developed to help decision making in city logistics. Such models do not take into account, or very few, the flow of passengers because the considered unit does not have the same nature (a person is active and a good is passive). However, it seems fundamental to gather the goods and the passengers in one model when their respective transports interact wit...

People using public transport systems need two kinds of basic information (1) when, where and which bus/train to board, and (2) when to exit the vehicle. In this paper we propose a system that helps the user know his/her stop is nearing. The main objective of our system is to overcome the ’neck down’ approach of any visual interface which requires the user to look into the mobile screen for ale...

Developments in mobile technology offer new ways of supporting mobile decision making. One application domain in the area of Location Based Services (LBS) is the delivery of journey plans to a mobile device. Few journey planners are available for urban bus travellers and tend to restrict users to a limited number of journey endpoints. This is due to the challenges of modelling urban bus network...

This extended abstract concerns the FP7-project Spencer. As part of the Spencer project, a demonstrator robot will be developed which provide services to passengers at a major European airport. Example services include (1) guiding transfer passengers from their arrival gate to the so-called Schengen barrier, and (2) assisting in the transfer process by printing boarding passes. The goal of the ...