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Títol: Assessment of the number of seats abreast in passenger aircraft cabins

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PRATS MENÉNDEZ, XAVIER

Departament: FIS

Títol: Assessment of the number of seats abreast in passenger aircraft cabins

Data inici oferta: 07-05-2024     Data finalització oferta: 07-05-2024


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: ERASMUS
 
        Supervisor/a extern: Prof. Dr. Dieter Scholz
        Institució/Empresa: HAW (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissensch
 
Paraules clau:
SeatGuru AircraftCabin SeatsAbreast EASA Emissions Slenderness
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
El TFG s'ha portat a terme dins d'un programa de mobilitat Erasmus+ i, concretament, a la Universitat Hochschule Fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Alemanya). Excepcionalment es defensarà a la universitat de destinació si s'obté prèviament el vist-i-plau de la Sotsdirecció de Relacions Internacionals de l'EETAC.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
The analysis of cabin layouts and seating configurations in commercial airplanes is critical for understanding the balance between passenger comfort and operational efficiency. Many websites are already set up detailing the arrangement of all the cabin structures and which seats are considered the "best" and the "worst" to sit in, thus further denoting the importance that comfort has when designing a cabin. A need therefore arises where detailed cabin statistics (such as the number of rows, seats, and monuments) can be extracted from websites which initially were only meant to be used by the average passenger such as SeatGuru for various airlines and aircraft models. Previous research has indicated that seat pitch, width, and the number of seats abreast significantly impact both passenger experience and airline economics. By systematically counting rows and seats and computing relevant parameters such as the fitness parameter and slenderness ratios, this study seeks to provide a comprehensive evaluation of current seating practices. Additionally, such data allows us to explore the trends in the airline industry, such as the optimization of cabin dimensions using the OPerA method to identify relationships between design choices and real-life applications. This approach helps in understanding the implications of different seating arrangements on factors like fuel consumption, passenger capacity, and overall aircraft performance that need to be considered when designing an aircraft cabin.

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