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On load balancing strategies for baggage screening at airports

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  • Wu, Xuepei
  • Xie, Lihua

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We study load balancing policies for an airport baggage handling system (BHS). The performance of the screening subsystem is important as it can potentially cause traffic congestion of the whole BHS during peak period. Currently, the round-robin (RR) and the first-available (FA) polices are implemented at airports. This paper presents a simulative approach to evaluate the impact of load balancing policies on the system performance. Using discrete-event simulations, airport practitioners can assess the effectiveness of the policies according to the actual layout of a particular passenger terminal. In addition to the RR and FA, a join-shortest-queue (JSQ) policy is introduced. This scheme can be applied jointly with the RR for daily operations. A case study is presented to illustrate the characteristics of this scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that the RR-JSQ can replace the existing RR-FA for a better balanced load distribution and improve the overall system performance.

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  • Wu, Xuepei & Xie, Lihua, 2017. "On load balancing strategies for baggage screening at airports," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 82-89.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:62:y:2017:i:c:p:82-89
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2017.02.009
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