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A Fair Flow Control For Baggage Handling System in Airport

공항 수하물 처리시스템의 균형적인 흐름제어 기법 연구

  • Kim, Junbeom (Korea Aerospace University School of Air Transport, Transportation and Logistics) ;
  • Kim, Gukhwa (Korea Aerospace University School of Air Transport, Transportation and Logistics) ;
  • Chae, Junjae (Korea Aerospace University School of Air Transport, Transportation and Logistics)
  • Received : 2016.08.01
  • Accepted : 2016.10.05
  • Published : 2016.10.31
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Abstract

The baggage handling system (BHS) is one of the most complex system in the airport. A highly economical operating system is required to ensure its performance in consideration of its enormous cost on the extension. Furthermore, the inefficient operation deteriorates not only the system performance but the imbalance among the check-in counters because of a bottleneck on the conveyors downstream. The objective of this research is to improve the performance of both the BHS and the check-in area by efficiently controlling the flow in the merging area on the conveyors. Thus, we suggest a control logic of which the concept is borrowed from data networks. The simulation is used to analyze impacts of the conveyors bottleneck on the check-in area and optimize some parameters used in the suggested logic. We also discuss some observations from the simulation results into several aspects of performance measures.

BHS는 공항 내 가장 복잡한 시스템중 하나이며, 높은 시스템 확장비용을 고려했을 때 효율적인 운영 시스템이 요구된다. 비효율적인 BHS 운영 시스템은 병목현상을 발생시켜 시스템 능력을 하락시키는 동시에 체크인시설의 뷸균형을 야기한다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 BHS 합류부의 병목현상을 제어함으로써 BHS와 체크인 구역의 효율성을 향상시키는 것에 있다. 데이터 네트워크에 사용하는 흐름제어 개념을 차용하여 새로운 로직을 제안하였으며, 시뮬레이션을 기반으로 컨베이어의 병목현상이 고객 대기열에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

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