Airport

Italian air navigation service provider ENAV has adopted a digital ground-air-ground communications system called Data-Link to be used across the complete Italian airspace above 8,700m. Data-Link is designed to send data on the console of an air traffic controller to a display in the aircraft cockpit and vice-versa. The area ...

US-based Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop new systems and technologies for the aviation sector. The partnership is based on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between PIT operator Allegheny County Airport Authority and CMU. As part of the MoU, CMU’s Metro21: Smart Cities ...

Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics (SPPAL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Dubai Airports to use data analytics to improve airport optimisation and the passenger experience. The partners plan to leverage data management and digitalisation in order to enhance cost and energy efficiency at Dubai International and ...

London Luton Airport has started work on its Direct Air-Rail Transit (DART) transport system, a £225m double-shuttle fully automated people mover which will operate 24 hours a day. The airport awarded contracts in December to a VolkerFitzpatrick-Kier joint venture and Doppelmayr Cable Car UK, and the works are expected to ...

Volkswagen Group, along with Audi and Porsche, is carrying out a series of tests to demonstrate autonomous car parking at Hamburg Airport in Germany. Carried out in partnership between the Volkswagen Group and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the tests at the airport are based on a car ...

Accipiter Radar Technologies has secured a contract to provide its patented 3D Total Coverage avian radar system to Canada’s Vancouver International Airport (YVR). The Total Coverage radar system has been developed on the basis of Accipiter’s Radar Intelligence Network (RIN) Platform Technology. The scalable and flexible radar system is designed ...

UK-based firm Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has deployed the new version of its Cargo Management System (CMS) in ALS Cargo Terminal at Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi, Vietnam. Named Hermes 5 (H5), the new CMS version includes Hermes Hub Management System (HMS) and Hermes Business Intelligence (HBI) and is set ...

Groupe ADP has announced that Charles de Gaulle will be France’s first airport to trail autonomous shuttle buses, which will run from the airport’s suburban train station to Groupe ADP’s headquarters at the Environmental and Sustainable Development Resource Centre. Transport group Keolis and autonomous shuttle designer Navya will provide the ...