Towards seamless upgrades with CI/CD By Gavin Postlewaight, Senior Operations Engineer, CI/CD Lead Last year, my friend treated me to a drive-in his Tesla. Upon parking, he showed me a new feature that had downloaded overnight: Dog mode. This little feature, which he activated as we exited the car, keeps the interior air conditioning running,…
Closing the PX Gap: From Dots to Big Picture Insight By Siobhan Boyle, Marketing Manager Understanding passenger flow throughout the airport terminal forms the basis for many operational decisions. Most airports are not equipped to do this. Measuring queues is only part of the story. It’s time airports also considered the entire Kerb-to-Flight journey, to…
Rail Gets Commuter Safety on Track with Multimodal Insights By Christian Carstens, PR & Digital Marketing Manager While a great deal has been made of rebuilding international and local air travel over the last few months, a gradual return to commuter traffic is underway in many parts of the world. With a renewed focus on…
Volatility vs Predictability – Four Core Principles for Holistic Airport Operational Planning By James Williamson, CEO Airport operations have always been a complex, finely-tuned balance between capacity and demand, passenger experience and cost of service; the predictable and the unexpected. Then came the pandemic, and predictability was suddenly turned on its head. In a volatile…
Keflavik International Airport uses Dynamic Forecasting to Navigate Pandemic Times In late-March 2020, Keflavik International Airport (KEF) saw an unprecedented and sudden drop in global air travel. The Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with fluctuating travel restrictions, evolving screening processes and spacing constraints, plunged airports into potential chaos. At KEF, a recently implemented forecasting solution´s unique live…
How to Deliver Airport Operational Certainty Post Pandemic By James Williamson, CEO Over the last ten months, airport operational planning has been thrown into a veritable tailspin. The traditional way of basing decisions off stable schedules, historical data and static rule sets are now suddenly ineffective and struggle to reflect the realities of a dynamic…
Giles explains how moving from single-process queue measurement to airport-wide flow management is helping improve staff resourcing, bottleneck prevention and expansion planning.
Pandemic Sets the Stage for AI Take-off at Airports By Siobhan Boyle, Marketing Manager Since the arrival of Covid-19, industry commentators have shared a common theme – businesses need to be more tech-smart and flexible, to face the challenging times ahead. For airports, this is nothing new. The digitisation of operations has long been on…
Masking Accuracy: The New Facial Recognition Challenge for Airports By Siobhan Boyle, Marketing Manager Mandatory mask-wearing is causing facial recognition problems, impacting passenger flow. How can airports keep travellers moving at safe distances, without reverting to manually counting heads? Masks are considered one of our best defences against the spread of COVID-19, including during air…
Riding the Rails in a Pandemic – why real-time intelligence is key to restoring commuter confidence By Christian Carstens, PR & Digital Marketing Manager People don’t just want social distancing on trains and hand sanitisers. They want control – and they want it every step of the way. According to surveys by Transport Focus and…
