Tag: Transport

How long?

Written on 3 January 2018. Posted in DATASET2050.

AUTHOR: GRAHAM TANNER With the imminent publication of the DATASET2050 project results, this seems an ideal moment to compare a recent trip with one of the key project outcomes, the average door-to-door travel time. DATASET2050 modelling of passenger journeys within Europe has found the average door-to-door...

Jet-bridges: The gateway to time-wasting?

Written on 16 November 2017. Posted in DATASET2050.

Author: Pete Hullah So you walked for what seems like miles to get to your gate. You’ve just queued for an age to have your boarding-card scanned and your passport checked. “Bon voyage” says the attendant. Welcome to the jet bridge, or Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) in the jargon....

Mobility metrics and indicators rethought

Written on 9 October 2017. Posted in DATASET2050.

Author: Gérald Gurtner Performance is about comparing some output of a system with some level of expectations. The issue of setting the right level of expectations is certainly a major issue by itself, but choosing the right metrics to measure is probably even more difficult. This difficulty comes...

Vista tactical model – Mercury: because passengers matter

Written on 22 August 2017. Posted in Mercury, Vista.

Author: Samuel Cristóbal Over the next decades, EU mobility is expected to progressively evolve from the gate-to-gate focus currently prevalent in the aviation and ATM industry towards a seamless and efficient door-to-door-orientated vision. The paradigm shift from gate-to-gate (hence aircraft...

Moving the people to the terminal? Why not move the terminal to the people?

Written on 23 June 2017. Posted in DATASET2050.

Author: Pete Hullah The question of ground access to airports is the object of many studies. How do we get people to the airport quickly, efficiently and sustainably? A previous blog post touched on the many different means people use to accomplish this part of their journey. One of the major...

European door-to-door mobility workshop! 20th Sept, Madrid

Written on 22 June 2017. Posted in DATASET2050, Events.

European door-to-door mobility workshop, took place 20th September 2017, 10:30-16:00 The event, hosted at Madrid Campus (Google Space) mixed active debate and participation from all the workshop attendees with presentations from top entities in the field. See presentations below, some pictures will...

Towards user-centric transport in Europe – Challenges, solutions and collaborations

Written on 12 June 2017. Posted in DATASET2050.

The EU projects Mobility4EU (http://www.mobility4eu.eu/) and MIND-SETS (http://www.mind-sets.eu/) jointly organized the event “Towards user-centric transport in Europe – Challenges, solutions and collaborations” in Brussels in May. The aim was to bring together stakeholders from different areas to...

How do you catch a plane?

Written on 3 February 2017. Posted in DATASET2050.

How do you catch a plane? More interestingly: what are the stages of your door-to-door journey when an airline flight is involved? They’re most likely not all the same as anyone else’s. There are a myriad ways of getting from your starting point (home, office, hotel) to the airport –...

Innaxis at ICRAT 2016

Written on 27 July 2016. Posted in Events, Innaxis.

Between June 20 to 24, our PhD student Seddik Belkoura went at the very doorstep of the famous Rocky Balboa Statue, as the seventh edition of the International Conference on Air Transport (ICRAT) was held at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA) . This successful event, co-organised by the FAA (Federal...

The Case for Mobility Modelling in Europe

Written on 17 February 2016. Posted in Innaxis.

There are many performance targets for the European aviation system. It is clear that performance-based frameworks are needed and utilised, especially when decision makers need to act on legislative packages or when operational managers need to make procedural changes or decisions regarding technology...