Airport Terminal Passenger Queue Forecasting for Departure Gates and Security Checkpoints

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07622v1
• Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 13:56:36 GMT
• Title: Airport Terminal Passenger Queue Forecasting for Departure Gates and Security Checkpoints
• Abstract summary: We propose a passenger queue forecasting framework that learns historical passenger flow patterns from operational data.<n>The proposed model employs a Transformer-based architecture to capture temporal dependencies and inter-facility correlations.
• Score: 0.9079873854272275
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Accurate passenger queue forecasting in airport terminals is essential for efficient departure operations, as it enables proactive congestion management. However, time-varying passenger demand and heterogeneous facility usage across multiple departure facilities make forecasting challenging. In this work, we propose a passenger queue forecasting framework that learns historical passenger flow patterns from operational data. The proposed model employs a Transformer-based architecture to capture temporal dependencies and inter-facility correlations using past queue length and waiting time at departure gates and security checkpoints, together with passenger throughput at check-in islands. The learned representations are mapped to two facility-specific MLP heads to predict queue length and waiting time at departure gates and security checkpoints. Experimental results demonstrate accurate forecasts up to two hours ahead. The proposed approach offers practical real-time decision support for proactive queue management and staff reallocation in airport terminal operations.

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