AirTOp also includes simulations of all common airport ground vehicles:
Tug
Buses
Refueling trucks
Catering trucks
De-icing trucks
Refueling pumps
Baggage tractors
Baggage trailers
Water trucks
Lavatory trucks
Cleaning trucks
Stairs
With or without tug modeling, AirTOp can be used to model and evaluate different tug usage strategies (e.g. push/pull, close to or far from the runway lining, enabling late(r) engine start), and to compare them, considering, among other things: fuel consumption, emissions, delays, duration of use and distance covered.
Key benefits
AirTOp models Aprons and Taxiways and gives you an in-depth understanding of potential bottlenecks when you plan a reorganisation of your airport, increase capacity or introduce new processes or equipment.
The high-fidelity modelling of all ground handling equipment, vehicles and aircraft behaving correctly in terms of processes, rules and speeds, will help you to avoid wrong investment or expectations in terms of future capacity and delay. Furthermore, alternative solutions can easily be build and validated.
Comparison between scenarios, such as with/without CDM, can be modelled and benefits of CDM implementation quantified.
The perfect visualisation of model components makes it easy to explain scenarios and the validation outcome to all stakeholders, also people that are not experts in airport operations.