Charles de Gaulle Airport Increasing Throughput with Sensis Aerobahn
Aviation Information Management System Improves Visibility into Airside Operations
DEWITT, NY – April 28, 2006 – Sensis Corporation today announced that Service de la Navigation Aerienne (SNA), the French Civil Aviation authority for the greater Paris region, has awarded a contract to provide Aerobahn to Charles de Gaulle Airport. Further, Aerobahn has been declared operational at CDG. Aerobahn is a powerful toolbox for airport and airline users responsible for airside operations. The system enables SNA to view, monitor and quantifiably measure operations for post-event analysis, increasing SNA’s utilization of scarce assets and its ability to forecast the impact of future operational events.
Charles de Gaulle Airport manages more than 500,000 airplane movements a year. This dense capacity created a demand for increased visibility into operations to ensure a high level of efficiency. Sensis partnered with NavControl, a French surveillance and navigation equipment provider, to provide Aerobahn to the airport. With Aerobahn, SNA can now measure operations with a focus on occupancy times and throughput in key locations. SNA is also using Aerobahn taxi time and route information to better understand arrival and departure efficiency.
“Aerobahn provides us with valuable insight into occupancy times across the airport,” said Jean-Pierre Cochet, project manager for advanced surface movement guidance and control systems and radar equipment for SNA.
The Aerobahn platform is a secure web-based architecture, which collects surveillance data from Sensis Multistatic Dependent Surveillance (MDS) multilateration system and other surveillance sources and flight plan data and transforms the data into real-time information. SNA also uses the information for post-event analysis. Sensis QuickView enables users to quickly assess key performance measures and ground operations such as arrival times segmented by runway; Sensis TaxiView enables users to monitor and quantifiably measure operations in real-time; and Sensis OpsView enables users to play back operational events for post-event analysis to identify trends and better predict the impact of future events.
“Aerobahn improves an airport’s ability to manage the use of its infrastructure,” said Marc Viggiano, president of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. “With Aerobahn, SNA will be able to precisely monitor aircraft movements at Charles de Gaulle in order to facilitate better utilization of critical airport resources.”
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