Luggage belts – a great leveler
Ramachandran S
LinkedIn Top Voice ? Author ? Speaker ? Principal Consultant in thought leadership unit Infosys Knowledge Institute - Lead for engineering, manufacturing, sustainability, and energy transition
One great leveler I notice during air travel is the ‘baggage carousel’ or the ‘luggage belt’ at airports. Passengers usually rush to open overhead compartments in aircrafts to take their luggage and get out as soon as it reaches the aero bridge. All announcements from the crew to remain seated until the seat-belt sign is turned off are ignored. Ironically, everyone has to wait for their checked-in luggage to arrive in the terminal before we can leave the airport. So why rush?
The luggage belt is a level play field for all those who elbowed and muscled their way out. These days, in large airports, even if we do not check-in any luggage, the belt starts moving with luggage by the time we come to the terminal and near the airport exit. My suggestion to avoid this mad rush is for airlines to make this announcement: “All bags will be available at the same time in belt #x. Please do not rushâ€. Where else can we apply this type of a concept of consolidation like a luggage belt? Here are some situations, specifically where there is no scarcity of resources and a first-in-first-out situation is not required:
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- One rat race we see every day is vehicles rushing to office in the mornings and back in the evening, honking, overtaking, abusing others on the road. Instead, if public transportation is used, everyone boards and gets off at the destination at the same time. Fuel saved, less pollution, no rushing! It is a fair game. Punctuality is rewarded!
- Getting on and off trains is another example where we see passengers rushing. All coaches have two or more exits. In case of India, if it is made a practice to use the door towards the engine for getting on and the other one for getting off, the flow can atleast get streamlined in one direction.
- Vaccination, especially when there was a shortage was an issue. Long queues at public health centers, a minimum number of recipients needed to avoid wastage of the vaccine. Instead, if the exact batch number of grouped and got into a room, they can be vaccinated without any worry of missing out.
Are there any other situation you can think of where an airport luggage belt concept can be applied to remove variations and avoid rushing? #licreatoraccelerator
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2 å¹´Nice Ramachandran What about queues that we keep encountering in our own day-to-day lives? It could be at the billing counter to the one inside a supermarket!
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2 å¹´Over head compartments for luggage to store & remove,through automation of luggage box door open. Row wise opening doors with seating arrangement enables smooth removal lugages stored by individual passenger & move towards exit door.
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2 å¹´The concept can be applied in big super markets where items will move on conveyor and people can pick what they want, bills generated automatically through bar code scanners and billed to smart phones with UPI / cards. There will be less rush and discipline!
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2 å¹´Very nice article, Ram. Loved reading this.