San Diego International Airport uses Veovo to Help Travelers Get a Taxi Faster
San Diego International Airport´s use Veovo Technology has helped to identify taxi rank bottlenecks and enabled the airport to provide taxis when needed.
After receiving a number of customer concerns about taxi wait times, San Diego International Airport began to explore opportunities for providing real-time data to report taxi wait times. Since perceived wait times varied, the airport researched available systems that would automatically and accurately collect both real-time and historical wait time data to help improve taxi and shuttle van customer waiting times.
The airport, which is the busiest single-runway commercial airport in the United States, selected the Veovo Traffic Management solution. The solution is able to monitor taxi queues and provide waiting time information on a historical and real-time basis. With this data, the airport has been able manage and improve the tactical management, to plan more effectively prior to the day and allocate resources more effectively on-the-day.
“We chose the Veovo solution because it is a cost effective and reliable solution. With almost a full year of operation, the system has helped identify time periods where taxi passenger wait times exceed 10 minutes, thereby allowing us to assess schedule deficiencies and taxi dispatches,” says David J. Boenitz, Director of Ground Transportation at San Diego International Airport. “The data has greatly helped improve the customer experience by providing us the ability to schedule taxis to be available when needed.”
“Superior airport management not only ensures premium passenger experience within the airport, but also provides travelers with quick and easy access to transportation—such as taxis—at the end of their journey, continues Christian. “We value the long-term cooperation with San Diego International Airport and their professional and innovative approach in using our technology to ensure efficient taxi rank operations and improve the passenger satisfaction.
Also JFK Airport and Brussels Airport has also adopted the solution to improve their taxi rank performance.
“Veovo helps us manage performance with data-driven certainty. With real-time visibility of passenger flow, we can keep pinch-point processing quick, but also make holistic decisions on how to create more efficient and more meaningful customer experiences throughout the airport.”
“Veovo has allowed us to gain a good understanding of the security check-point dynamics, and most importantly, our customers benefit directly by getting a better service.”
“We are able to keep our passenger fully informed 24/7 about what to expect at security. Our aim is to make the experience as smooth as possible – Veovo helps us do that.”
“With Veovo, we can proactively manage passenger flow, and respond promptly and efficiently to irregular operations and disruptions.”
“Vital to our Master Plan programme is a deep understanding of airport capacity, bottlenecks and constraints, and Veovo is key to this.”
“Veovo has allowed us, together with our airport partners and stakeholders, to better manage operations, as well as improve the passenger experience by communicating expected wait times to passengers at processing points.”
“Veovo has dramatically improved our real-time operational decision-making, post-performance analysis, and capacity planning data analysis capabilities. But, perhaps, more importantly, it has helped us give our passengers a more positive airport experience.”
“Veovo gives us a clear picture of passenger movements, allowing us to provide the best customer service and proactively manage service levels before any issues arise.”
“Veovo enables us to monitor the quality of the terminal processes to improve resource planning, and to perform consistent reporting to internal and external stakeholders.”
“Veovo provides us with immediate visibility to the customer experience and resource effectiveness with throughput planning. It allows us to put the customer at ease at a critical stress point and reinforces our expectations around superior customer experience.”
