The Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ Institute of Transportation announced the results of a collaboration with National Cheng Kung University’s Research & Development Foundation to enhance airfield efficiency and decision-making abilities in response to contingencies.
In an Dec. 9 event held in Taipei City to introduce the Airport Airside Simulation and Analysis System, 45 representatives from the MOTC’s Department of Navigation and Aviation, Civil Aviation Administration, and Taoyuan International Airport in the northern city of Taoyuan participated, among others.
The ministry anticipates that AASAS will assist with policy analyses for agencies such as CAA. The IOT said users can set the number and interval of flights to track the effects on airside capacity, as well as using the model to clarify abnormal conditions, improve operation efficiency, enable airlines to save on costs and decrease passengers’ waiting time.
Domestic airports used to rely on overseas teams to conduct assessments, the IOT said, explaining that in order to develop localized software, the institute’s researchers spent four years between 2017 and 2022 on the core technologies, and carried out further studies in 2023 and 2024 to devise a robust mechanism.
The institute vowed to remain focused on advancing technologies to apply the system to ground handling while expressing its hopes that the software could become a standard estimation tool for local civil airports. (POC-E)
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