ERIC Number: EJ1304600
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jan
Pages: 3
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Case--Workforce Scheduling for Airport Immigration on the Island of Tropical Paradise
Sharkey, Thomas C.; Bublak, Steve; Disselkamp, Lisa; Shkil, Brittney
INFORMS Transactions on Education, v20 n2 p90-92 Jan 2020
This case study focuses on modeling and analyzing the practices concerning the staffing of the immigration agency at the Island of Tropical Paradise International Airport (ITPIA), which is responsible for processing arriving passengers into the country. Immigration at ITPIA has engaged you to understand the trade-offs between the number of employees and the time passengers spend in the queue waiting to be processed by an immigrations employee. A specific overview of the current practices of this staffing and a discussion of the analysis required to be conducted is provided. [For the related Case Article, see EJ1304602].
Descriptors: Labor Force, Scheduling, Air Transportation, Immigrants, Immigration, Employees, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Operations Research, Engineering Education
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Language: English
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