[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 pandemic and air transportation: Successfully navigating the paper hurricane

X Sun, S Wandelt, C Zheng, A Zhang - Journal of Air Transport …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims to analyze and understand the impact of the corona virus disease (COVID-
19) on aviation and also the role aviation played in the spread of COVID-19, by reviewing …

A distributionally robust optimization approach for airline integrated recovery under in-flight pandemic transmission risks

Y Xu, S Wandelt, X Sun - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the airline industry hard, leading to heterogeneous
epidemiological situations across markets, irregular flight bans, and increasing operational …

[HTML][HTML] The use of biometric technology at airports: The case of customs and border protection (CBP)

N Khan, M Efthymiou - … Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 2021 - Elsevier
Biometrics in an airport environment can provide a contactless way of identity verification.
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been trialling and implementing the …

Multipath-assisted radio sensing and state detection for the connected aircraft cabin

J Ninnemann, P Schwarzbach, M Schultz, O Michler - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Efficiency and reliable turnaround time are core features of modern aircraft transportation
and key to its future sustainability. Given the connected aircraft cabin, the deployment of …

Evaluation of technology-supported distance measuring to ensure safe aircraft boarding during COVID-19 pandemic

P Schwarzbach, J Engelbrecht, A Michler, M Schultz… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the rise of COVID-19, the sustainability of air transport is a major challenge, as there is
limited space in aircraft cabins, resulting in a higher risk of virus transmission. In order to …

A combined optimization–simulation approach for modified outside-in boarding under COVID-19 regulations including limited baggage compartment capacities

M Schultz, M Soolaki, M Salari, E Bakhshian - Journal of Air Transport …, 2023 - Elsevier
The timely handling of passengers is critical to efficient airport and airline operations. The
pandemic requirements mandate adapted process designs and handling procedures to …

Airplane Seating Assignment Greedy Algorithms That Separate Passengers Likely to Be Susceptible to Infectious Disease from Those Likely to Be Infectious

RJ Milne, LA Cotfas, C Delcea, L Crăciun… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has mostly ended, there may be future situations (eg
future pandemics) in which infectious disease spread on airplanes should be minimized …

Minimizing health risks as a function of the number of airplane boarding groups

RJ Milne, LA Cotfas, C Delcea - Transportmetrica B: Transport …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Airlines and researchers have been working to reduce the health risk to passengers from the
novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2. Recent literature indicates that the Reverse Pyramid …

An adaptive framework for optimization and prediction of air traffic management (sub-) systems with machine learning

S Reitmann, M Schultz - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
Evaluating the performance of complex systems, such as air traffic management (ATM), is a
challenging task. When regarding aviation as a time-continuous system measured in value …

Travel bubbles in air transportation: Myth or reality?

X Sun, S Wandelt, A Zhang - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aviation has been hit hard by COVID-19, with passengers stranded in remote destinations,
airlines filing for bankruptcy, and uncertain demand scenarios for the future. Travel bubbles …