[FRIAM] Sometimes random is the best strategy

[Tom Johnson]

Talks about modeling loading strategies....

*Loading an Airliner Is Rocket Science
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/business/14boarding.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
By PAUL BURNHAM FINNEY
Spurred by financial pressures and packed planes — often 80 to 90 percent
full — airlines have come up with a wide variation of passenger boarding
techniques.

Airlines have been boarding passengers for decades, long enough, it would
seem, to have figured out the best way to get people on and off a plane. But
they haven't.

-- tj
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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
                                                   -- Buckminster Fuller
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