A simulation to test plane boarding methodologies in your terminal
After watching a wonderfully informative and entertaining video on the frustrations of the existing methodologies for boarding a plane, I decided to build a simulation to model some of the methodologies to the test
- Node 11.0+ Due to V8 7.0 bringing a stable sort implementation to Array.sort
- Request: use lodash sortby() to circumvent stable sort issue
Boarding Simulator runs in your terminal and uses a json file to configure the simulation.
Run node ./dist/index.js to run the simulation with the default configuration
Pass in a path to a configuration json to use those settings: node ./dist/index.js path/to/my/settings.json
passengerCount: number
Number of passengers that will be assigned seats. Will be limited to the maximum seats available
rows: number
Number of seat rows in the plane
columnsPerSide: number
Number of seat columns per side of the plane. Ex: 3 columnsPerSide = 6 columns total
boardingGroups: number
Number of boarding groups to divide the rows by
stepsBerBag: number
Number of steps it takes to stow a single bag
bagMin: number
Minimum number of bags that a passenger may carry
bagMax: number
Maximum number of bags that a passenger may carry
seatShufflePenalty: number
Steps it takes for a person to bypass an already seated passenger to get to assigned seat
sortStrategyName: string
Strategy to sort passengers by. See Sorting Strategies for a list of available strategies
showRowNumbers: boolean
showColumnNumbers: boolean
showBoardingGroups: boolean
(not implemented)
showLog: boolean
(not implemented)
animate: boolean
Sets the simulation mode.
trueAnimation modefalseAverage mode
simulationRuns: number
Times that the simulation will be run. Only used when in Average mode, i.e animate: false
fps: number
Framerate of the simulation. Only used when in Animation mode, i.e animate: true
alternatingRows
backToFront
backToFrontRow
bySide
fastest
frontToBack
frontToBackRow
isleToWindow
random
slowest
windowToIsle
The simulator can run in two distinct modes:
Animation mode: Runs a single simulation and displays an animation in the terminal
Average mode: Runs the simulation without animating then returns an summary of all simulations run. Runs the
simulation as many times as provided by the provided siumulationRuns value
TBD