Especially during conceptual and preliminary design phase of a new aircraft, freedom of design has its maximum, whereas these phases are significant for their high degree of uncertainties according to acceptance and impact onto airlines as well as passengers. This paper presents a methodology for assessing aircraft cabin regarding comfort. This methodology has been derived out of several surveys, real flight tests and bibliography studies. With this methodology different cabin layouts can be evaluated and assessed. Based on quantitative assessment outputs, decisions regarding comfort issues in future cabin layouts can be made. The major focus of this paper is on passenger acceptance in aircraft cabins operating on long-haul routes because travellers on short-haul journeys tend to be less concerned about the type of aircraft and cabin flown. In this paper, methodology will presented according to its structure, assessment capabilities (input parameters) as well as assessment results. The methodology based on a compensatory function with geometrical parameters of a cabin (membership functions) and passenger properties (weighting functions) on the other side. For presenting this methodology, two different aircraft and cabin design are explained and further assessed with this methodology. The first aircraft configuration is a conventional A340-300 cabin, as a typical representative of a long haul aircraft. The second assessed aircraft is a blended wing body aircraft (BWB) as one example of an unconventional aircraft. Even if the methodology can assess the entire aircraft cabin with its different classes, due to complexity, the structure and output of the assessment approach bases only on the economy class properties of these two configurations.
Passenger acceptability assessment model -methodology for future customer-orientated aircraft cabin design
Modell zu Bewertung der Passagier-Akzeptanz -Verfahren für den Entwurf zukünftiger kundenorientierter Flugzeugkabinen
2006
11 Seiten, 10 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 21 Quellen
Conference paper
English
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006
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