WHITE PAPER. Post pandemic airport recovery depends on how airports and airlines can tackle volatility in an affordable way, without sacrificing safety and efficiency. In a white paper titled The Elastic Apron, which ADB SAFEGATE’s Thorben Burghardt recently co-authored with Michael McElvaney from Jacobs, we explore the concept of operational elasticity and how it can aid airport recovery.

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Thorben Burghardt

VP Gate Services & Asset Management

OUR PEOPLE. Did you know that our highly skilled software team is developing software and systems for the tower and air traffic controllers at airports all over the world? Today we introduce you to the ADB SAFEGATE Tower Team. Join us on a visit to beautiful Graz in Austria to meet Benjamin and Ralf, two software experts and part of our R&D Tower Team!

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Barbara Beil-Zerobin

Human Resources Management at ADB Safegate Austria GmbH

Maintenance personnel at McCarran International Airport (LAS) no longer put pen to paper when they log maintenance performed on runway lights. Instead, a digital asset management system uses GPS technology to track the work performed and pushes the information to a cloud-based platform to enhance the accuracy of maintenance records. Continue reading

ADB SAFEGATE Reporter

The baggage collection hall has long been a bottleneck, with passengers jostling to be at the front of the carousel crowds and the first to retrieve their luggage. However, coronavirus has signaled an end to travelers rubbing shoulders with one another, and the baggage hall is now subject to the same social distancing rules as the rest of the airport.
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Tara Craig

Guest blogger: Journalist and editor

Technology is a gamechanger, a disruptor and plays a pivotal role in transforming industries. Aviation is no stranger to technology, but with the restrictions posed by COVID-19, the pace at which the industry adopts technology is likely to quicken. In the second part of our series on trends shaping aviation in a COVID world, we look at how airports and airlines will use technology to address current challenges.

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Lakshmi Shree VIJAYAKUMAR

Validation and Commissioning Manager UAE - Abu Dhabi

PRESS RELEASE.  ADB SAFEGATE and Assaia have successfully delivered pilot projects featuring a first-of-its-kind concept at a number of pioneer airports around the world. The concept combines ADB SAFEGATE’s Safedock A-VDGS built-in cameras with Assaia’s ApronAI image recognition capabilities to record turnaround events in real-time. The solution offers airports unprecedented transparency and resilience in apron operations.

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ADB SAFEGATE Reporter

By connecting the world, aviation brings us closer and fuels economic activity, by supporting a subset of industries including travel and tourism, hospitality, logistics, retail, food, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, entertainment and e-commerce. It is almost a year since the pandemic struck and restrictions of some sort came into effect. As the global aviation industry continues to weather the storm and charts its recovery, here’s a two-part series on trends that are shaping our industry in 2021.

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Lakshmi Shree VIJAYAKUMAR

Validation and Commissioning Manager UAE - Abu Dhabi

As part of a special report on information technology, Airport World, the official magazine of the Airports Council International (ACI), published an article written by ADB SAFEGATE’s Thorben Burghardt on closing the data gaps to automate airport operations. The article looks at how data has become the new integration layer for applications of multiple vendors.

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Thorben Burghardt

VP Gate Services & Asset Management

Company training strategies are changing in the post-COVID environment and within 6 months, the ADB SAFEGATE Training Academy™ has been able to quickly make a strategic pivot and reinvent how we do customer training.
The Training Academy™ is proud to announce the launch of our new global customer training website to support the FAA and ICAO markets. You can explore our new website at airfieldtrainingacademy.com.

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Quentin Fromont

Training Manager, Training Academy

Airports have always wanted to grow the number of aircraft movement and flights to meet increasing airline and passenger demands. While Resource Management Systems (RMS) can plan and optimize resource utilization, these deployments can be complex. Moving from an on-premise setup to the cloud provides quick, easy and cost-effective access to resource management, in a matter of days. It’s just what airports need in these times of uncertainty.
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Andy Quilliam

Head of Project Delivery