Technological solutions

Comprehensive airline management system

IRIS™ is a comprehensive airline management system designed originally for companies with varied fleets, spread operations and maintenance and fleet from various owners, such as aerial works companies, helicopters or corporate aviation. However, it is extremely flexible and it is being adapted to the needs of commercial airlines.
IRIS™ covers in a unique database all the functions needed by the technical and operations´ staff, but also links with commercial planning, crew management, human resources…
Some features of IRIS: technical control of the fleet, tracking of rotables, quality, warehouse management, maintenance planning, integral cost control, fuel management, link between commercial and production, etc.

Gate-to-Gate fast time simulation

Gate-to-gate fast time simulation tools are used to model the entire aircraft flight from the en-route & TMA airspace to the airport airside operations.
These tools permit simulatalion of any gate-to-gate scenario in order to design en-route, approach & departure procedures; to assess the implications of introducing new en-route and terminal procedures; to re-design and re-classify the airspace sectors; or to evaluate financial implications of future infrastructure investment in airports.
TAAM, RAMS, SIMMOD

Airport fast time simulation

Airport fast time simulation platforms enable to model all airport processes including passenger & baggage processes within the terminal and airside aircraft & vehicles movements.
These tools are very useful for planning and designing airport infrastructure; for balancing airport capacity and demand; for identifying bottlenecks and defining new design or operational solutions; or for assessing new design or operational solutions.
CAST, PaxSIM

Airport real time simulation

Total AirportSim is a real time simulation platform developed by IATA.
It enables the user to simulate the total airport environment and to provide realistic results. The model is designed to offer a comprehensive solution that covers a wide variety of demand/capacity and level of service applications for the simulation of aircraft and passenger flows. Runway, apron, gate and passenger terminal detailed analysis can all be carried out using real time simulation.
Total AIrportSim

Passenger flows simulation

Airport passengers’ behaviour is a complex aspect to be modelled, for which passenger flow simulation tools aim to provide a solution. Microscopic simulation of the passengers’ behaviour is employed for the optimisation of the design and operation of passenger processes, an for the enhancement and assessment of security related procedures.
PaxSIM, LEGION

Airport design

A wide range of generic CAD tools is available for the design of airport infrastructure, including landside and airside areas.
In addition, some specific tools provide powerful platforms supported with airport related libraries for high level detail design and technical assessment of the airport environment. These specific tools allow the design of the entire geometry of the airport systems and the technical and operational validation of preliminary solutions.
PATH PLANNER A5, CAD

Noise assessment

Empirical tools are used to calculate the noise impact around airports. The noise levels are based on a series of stored noise profiles of different aircraft under different flight conditions such as weight and trip length. A graphical Interface is provided for analysis of the results, displaying the noise impact as a series of noise contours in different noise metrics
Noise assessment studies are applied for analysing and validating airport locations and runway configurations; and to evaluate compatibility with the local environment
INM, ENHANCE

Airport resources allocation & optimisation

Airport management tools are applied for the design and validation of airport resource allocation and for operational and service level assessment of the proposed airport procedures.
Some benefits from these tools are: real scalability in the number of activities and resources; time spent in preliminary planning or conflict detection and reduction; automatic detection of problems and conflicts and development of “optimal” solutions based on actual data; possibility of “what-if” scenarios evaluation before real operation.
Terminal Management Solution (TMS), Resource Management System (RMS)

Numeric simulation

Numeric simulation tools are very useful for the modelling of very complex and specific airport process which require a tailored solution (i.e. baggage handling, handling equipment allocation, apron load schedule, gate allocation, management of connecting flights). These tools are a valid complement to other simulation platforms with better graphical capabilities but less calculation capabilities (CAST, TAAM).
WITNESS, EXTEND, ARENA

Flight demand analysis

Flight demand analysis is applied to different airport related activities: airport concept development, infrastructure planning, marketing analysis and business development. In addition, benefits are also provided for airlines: evaluating airline performance, calculating market share, finding regional or global activity indicators and new route development analysis.
Tools available to provide worldwide flight schedules databases and powerful analysis and report capabilities.
OAG MAX

Airport hinterland & access modes assessment

GIS and transportation modelling tools are applied at the airport level for different tasks: demand analysis of the different access modes to the airport (taxi, private vehicle, public transport, etc), airport intermodality studies, definition and analysis of the airport hinterland, market share study for the different access modes, competitor airports analysis, concept definition and dimensioning of ground accesses to the airport, adaptation and compatibility to the existed transport networks in the local environment.
TransCAD

Airport ground accesses design

Traffic and transportation simulation and modelling tools are useful for airport planning and design activities: dimensioning and design of ground access to the airport, design of transport public stop-areas and restricted accesses, design of taxi areas and special accesses, support tool for the design of airport parking areas and service roads for the industrial areas associated to the airport.
TransModeler

Database management

Database management tools are used in studies of demand analysis: aircraft traffic profiles (peak day, design day, peak hour, design hour, seasonal variation, etc), passenger demand analysis (arriving curves, check-in curves, embarking curves, etc), baggage demand (baggage handling ratios, lost baggage, baggage in connexion, etc), exploit statistical and historical databases, etc.
WITNESS, SPSS, EXCEL