Model, Visualize, and Analyze Airport Passenger Terminal Capacity and Operations
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.
Analyze passenger terminal performance, capacity, and resource allocation by modeling operational processes and people & baggage flows.
Platform Compatibility
Platform Requirements
Java 17 64-bits
System Requirements
Full support for 64-bit operating systems
Windows® 8 or later
MacOS® X 10 or later
Linux kernel 2.6 or later (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)
English
What Makes AirTOP Terminal Unique
Visualize in 2D or 3D
View 2D and 3D models of passengers, visitors, and baggage throughout the terminal.
Review processes and systems
Simulate terminal processes including check-in, passport control, security, baggage claim, and retail areas, while dynamically calculating resource requirements.
Optimize operations
Assess the impact of infrastructure modifications, including associated construction, area closures, and re-routing of passengers.
Validate planning designs
Evaluate how different design choices facilitate or impact improved terminal operations.
Features
Assess Passenger Terminal Performance, Capacity and Operations
AirTOP Terminal provides a platform to evaluate and communicate the effectiveness of new or revised terminal layouts or operational processes, maximizing benefits and minimizing costs.
- Simulate and visualize processes and systems
- Analyze capacity
- Measure Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Model terminal processes
Key Performance Indicators
AirTOP Terminal has built-on functionalities to assess IATA Level of Service (waiting times, space and seating capacity) and other Key Performance Indicators (KPI) such as walking distances, walking times, throughput (dynamic) capacity, and more. In addition, AirTOP Terminal allows users to create their own customized reports, seamlessly. All reports can also be exported in CSV format and used on other third-party tools (for example Excel®, Power BI® and Tableau®).
Calculate Dynamic and Static Capacity
AirTOP Terminal can be used to calculate both dynamic and static capacity. The software comes with a built-in feature that calculates the number of check-in resources needed at any (user-defined) interval of time for a given demand (number of passengers) and target (the Level of Service to be maintained), for example queueing time cannot exceed 10 minutes. The module also offers a dynamic resource calculation feature, which calculates the number of resources that need to be conditionally opened at any (user-defined) interval of time, for example open more immigration counters if a new international flight has parked at the stand.
Model Passenger Terminal Processes
AirTOP Terminal is capable of modelling any process occurring inside the passenger terminal facility. Users can model complete terminal facilities from terminal entrances to departure gates (departures) and from arrival gates to terminal exits (arrivals), including transfers. Alternatively, users can also model specific airport processes such us check-in, security, reclaim, and more, without the need to model the complete terminal facility, ultimately saving time and costs.
Departure Processes
Public departure hall and check-in: Evaluate different check-in allocation alternatives, analyze the impact of a new schedule or additional flights on existent facilities, assess the impact of new resources (common-use self-service (CUSS) kiosks, automatic bag drops (ABDs), etc.).
Security screening: Evaluate the impact of new regulations or new technology on the security process. Determine resource requirements throughout the day.
Retailing and advertisement: Evaluate the exposure to billboards and develop other marketing variables. Evaluate the time passengers and visitors have available for shopping while being in the Terminal.
Departure lounge: Evaluate different alternatives of departure gate and lounge allocation and its impact on seating facilities and space available.
Boarding processes: Evaluate the impact of boarding strategies on boarding time and congestion in the terminal.
Arrival Processes
Arrival hall and Passport control: Determine the width of corridors or escalator/elevators requirements. Evaluate the impact of deplaning on immigration facilities. Evaluate need of resources throughout the day.
Transfer analysis: Evaluate in detail all transfer facilities.
Baggage reclaim and customs: Evaluate the performance of different reclaim allocation. Assess the impact that bag delivery has into the terminal’s Level of Service. Size the need of custom facilities.
Trajectory Density Heat Map
With AirTOP Terminal, it is possible to generate trajectory density heat maps. Depending on the number of passengers that used the same path during a simulation, the color of the trajectory will change from red (high number of passenger) to blue. The thresholds and the colors can be defined by the user.
AirTOP Reporter
The AirTOP Reporter allows users to quickly retrieve, visualize and aggregate simulation results. It generates plots and tables exportable to spreadsheets or images to be used in external analysis and reporting tools. It is also possible to generate rolling periods. Rolling period reports can be used to generate a graph or to highlight areas in different colors based on the threshold values.
What’s New in AirTOP Terminal
New features, fixes, and other improvements built specifically with your feedback.
- The height between levels in the 3D view can be expanded so that users can see each level layout clearly
- Ignore Global Filter in dataset selection has been added so that users do not need to go back and forth to activate/deactivate the Terminal Filter
- Direction Path has been enhanced to reproduce a more realistic behavior.
- In Terminal Processor Schedule Rule, the Airport Usage Phase option has been added, simplifying the setup of the rule
- In Waiting Area Duration tab, Flight Plan column has been added, simplifying the durations set up
- Gates can be set to open before the departure flight is at the parking position
- When running Terminal only, aircraft that have two consecutive arrivals to the same airport or two consecutive departures from the same airport will be allowed
Licensing Options
Transoft Solutions offers a range of licensing preferences for the majority of our software. These different options were developed to help small, sole proprietorships right on up to the largest multinational companies meet their transportation design and analysis needs in the most efficient manner possible. Transoft software uses our own proprietary licensing technology that allows for ease of deployment and flexibility to upgrade at anytime.
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Advantages of a Network License:
- Network licensing simplifies software asset management because the licenses are resident on license managers instead of on each of the workstations across the network. The license manager can be configured to log historical usage data.
- Licenses are available to all workstations connected to the company server network software asset utilization.
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