Abstract:  This paper aims to achieve the highest efficiency of boarding in the airport taxi boarding area, and takes into full consideration the time cost of passengers and taxi drivers as well as the construction cost of boarding points, and applies the idea of Queuing Theory to study the optimal number of boarding points in the airport taxi boarding area. Taking Beijing capital airport as an example, this paper establishes a double-end queuing model for taxi and passenger, and respectively solves the number of boarding points that make the queue length reach the shortest, so as to achieve the highest efficiency. In addition, this paper also took the minimum total cost as the optimization objective to verify and optimize the queuing model, and found that the set number of boarding points could not only achieve the highest efficiency, but also achieve the lowest total cost. Finally, by setting the satisfaction weights of taxi drivers and passengers and assigning them to two queuing models, the optimal number of boarding points was obtained to be 7.

Key words:

airport taxi, driving efficiency, number of boarding points, Queuing Theory, cost optimization