Print Email Facebook Twitter Reducing peak stress on the Baggage Handling System Title Reducing peak stress on the Baggage Handling System: A research into the effect of buffering cold transfer baggage at Schiphol airport Author van der Grift, Niek (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) Contributor Duinkerken, M.B. (mentor) Negenborn, R.R. (graduation committee) Roos, Chris (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Mechanical Engineering Date 2023-02-20 Abstract Air transport has gone from a once in a lifetime experience for the extremely rich to a day to day method of transportation for everybody. With the increase in passenger movements the amount of baggage that goes through airports has increased as well. This could cause problems for airports if they have a limited capacity in one of the parts of the baggage journey. An important part is transfer baggage, if something goes wrong the transfer bag misses their connecting flight which is an expensive problems for the airlines and airports. To cope with the increase in demand of the capacity there are several solutions. The solution that will be explored in this paper is to make a more efficient use of the capacity that is available by making a prioritization in transfer baggage based on transfer time. The process in called cold buffering and the aim is flatten the infeed peaks. In order to explore this potential solution the baggage journey was explored and part of journey was modelled in a simulation. From the model it followed that it is possible to obtain 28.4% of peak shaving by using the cold buffering. Subject Simulation modellingairportbaggagepeak shavingcold buffering To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2607d09f-e09a-4a78-b66c-174deefeeacc Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2023 Niek van der Grift Files PDF thesisreport_NvanderGrift.pdf 9.99 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2607d09f-e09a-4a78-b66c-174deefeeacc/datastream/OBJ/view