AirTOP users include major air navigation service providers (ANSPs), airport authorities, airlines, research labs and consulting companies globally. The software is used to assess air traffic and airport complexity, measure controller workload, improve airspace and airport capacity and much more. AirTOP models have been used to improve the operations of more than 100 major airports worldwide.
AirTOP’s Terminal module extends the software’s capabilities into the passenger terminal. Sophisticated multi-agent models of complete airport terminals can be quickly built and simulated in 2D and 3D, allowing designers, planners, airlines, airport operators and any other stakeholder to evaluate their designs, processes or system changes, infrastructure modification or expansion requirements and conduct what-if analyses, before incurring significant costs.
With AirTOP Terminal, users can precisely model, analyze and visualize, in fast-time, all passenger (and their items) processes, focusing on the terminal as a whole or individual facilities. The module also offers dynamic features for operational analysis, allowing operations teams to understand the resources needed at any given time of the day.
The AirTOP Airside Aircraft module allows airport authorities, operators, consultants, and other stakeholders to assess and improve airport capacity by modeling airside aircraft operations.
It supports the rule-based modeling of:
- Stand/gate allocation
- Push/pull procedures, including taxibot/eTaxi concepts
- Taxi flow control
- Runway entry and exit selection
- Single and multiple runway sequencing
- Runway crossing
- Turnaround management
- De-icing procedures
- Ground metering and Departure Management (DMAN)
- Dynamic runway direction changes
- And more
In situations demanding anything from the redefinition of taxi routes to changes in the runway mode of operation or new ground equipment, AirTOP’s Airside Aircraft module allows users to visualize potential operational bottlenecks and test alternative scenarios.