delair Air Traffic Systems GmbH News - February 12, 2009

„sally” will be used for planning of baggage carousels

Braunschweig / Germany, 12th February 2009 – delair Air Traffic Systems GmbH, a solutions provider for optimising airport processes, has received a delivering order of “sally racetrack” from Zurich International Airport. “sally racetrack, a module of the resource management system “sally”, is used for optimising and planning baggage conveyor belts to avoid overloading on carousels.

Since many years Unique, operator of Zurich International Airport, is successfully using the planning systems “sally stand” for the stand allocation and “sally gate” for the gate waiting area. In the future, Unique will be using “sally racetrack” for the planning of baggage carousels.

“sally racetrack“ applies the same powerful and fastest algorithm for resource planning as used in all other modules in the “sally” product family. “sally” is used in the provisioning of essential airport resources and planning matters including pre-planning of future airports, airport enhancements, seasonal planning and daily resource planning. Based on rule sets generated from airport experts, “sally racetrack” is able to perform an automatic allocation of the baggage conveyor belts for certain events (for example landing of an airplane). With “sally racetrack” the allocations are monitored from the dispatcher and can be controlled manually. With the powerful and intuitively created rule sets an optimised and highly flexible handling of baggage carousels can be ensured. Experiments are carried through to determine if for example the number and dimensions of baggage conveyor belts will be sufficient in the future.

With “sally racetrack” the Airport Zurich can rely on an internationally proven standard product which features a fast planning algorithm, high flexibility and a user-friendly handling.

A-CDM
“sally” is part of delair’s A-CDM product family (Advanced Collaborative Decision Making). The products help to reduce fuel consumption, noise and pollutant emissions through reduced holdings, shorter flight times in the TMA (Terminal Maneuvering Area), shorter taxi times before take-off and optimised procedures. The product suite includes the A-CDM platform as the interface between delair’s applications and external systems, as well as other advanced planning tools. The advanced tools consist of the arrival and departure manager “darts4D“, which was developed in cooperation with DFS based on the DFS arrival manager “4D-Planner” and the departure manager “darts” from delair; furthermore the resource manager “sally” and the electronic flight strip system “focus”.

About delair:

delair Air Traffic Systems GmbH was founded in 1997 at the research airport Braunschweig. delair develops systems to optimise processes of air traffic control, airport operators, airlines, and handling agents. The products of delair are in operation at the International Airports Zurich and Frankfurt where they are clearly reducing costs and improving airport processes.

Contacts for further information:

Martin Wiesner
Marketing & Sales Director
delair Air Traffic Systems
Tel: +49 531 215 3611
martin.wiesner@delair.de
www.delair.de    

Arno Lücht
Public Relations
Profil Marketing
Tel.: +49 89 2424 1693
a.luecht@profil-marketing.com
www.profil-markting.com