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5 tech smart tips to cut airport border queues By Lars Tørholm, CTO Holiday-starved tourists have descended on airports this summer, with travel companies reporting a surge in bookings as relaxed rules come into effect. Most EU governments have tentatively opened their borders to vaccinated UK and European residents. Meanwhile, England has just lifted the…
How tech and AI can help rail win back riders By Peter Knudsen, GM Passenger Predictability, Veovo As more people across the globe roll up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccination, the prospect of returning to the office is finally becoming a reality. For rail and transit operators experiencing decreased ridership, the improving situation brings…
The 2021 airport playbook: Skate to where the puck is going By Siobhan Boyle, Marketing Manager Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky famously said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” The quote has long been popular with corporates wanting to inspire their teams to anticipate the next…
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…
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…