THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
IBS Software, a leading IT solution provider to the global air transportation industry, has implemented a series of airport collaborative decision-making (A-CDM) tools at London’s Gatwick Airport.
They will improve collaboration between airport partners, which will maximise capacity and service even while reducing emissions and operating costs.
Critical tools
They include an intelligent alert generator, alert distributor, departure planning information (DPI) message generation and processing and flight monitoring.
DPI messages supply the network operations centre with airport situational information direct from the A-CDM systems in order to update the real-time flight situation before take-off.
The tools complement software solutions from IBS that are already functional at the airport, a company spokesman said here. These cover areas such as departure control systems, ground handling, resource management, and baggage services, which help plan, manage and track flights and airport resource usage.
Eurocontrol
“IBS has helped us achieve an important milestone in the programme that now allows us to move forward with DPI testing with Eurocontrol (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation).
Eurocontrol is an international organisation working for seamless, pan-European air traffic management. London Gatwick is the UK’s second largest airport and the busiest single-runway in the world.
It currently serves 200 destinations in 90 countries for 34 million passengers a year on short and long haul point-to-point services.
Erik Einset, Programme Leader, London Gatwick, said that IBS has consistently delivered efficiently with exceptional quality.