Towards a predictive maintenance strategy for Passenger Boarding Bridges at the airport

With Schiphol Airport's flight numbers growing, working assets are essential to ensure on-time processes. The Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) is a critical asset in the airport's turnaround process. By ensuring that the asset is working properly, the operational processes can run efficiently. Currently, improving the reliability of the PBB when...

Electric Ground Support Equipment at Airports: The impact of implementing eGSE on the capacity and demand of GSE fleets

Airports and airlines are examining and committing to the electrification of Ground Support Equipment (GSE). To be able to estimate the required quantity of eGSE, the charging requirements of eGSE, the change of airport electricity requirements, and the scheduling possibilities of eGSE charging for the existing turnaround procedures, a model was...

IAF Assignment Optimization for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

During the COVID-19 pandemic people living close to the airport got accustomed to less flights, and therefore less noise disturbance. Now the amount of traffic is increasing again and so is the noise disturbance. For this research specifically the optimizing task of distributing of arriving aircraft over the IAF is addressed, as often the...

Improving Airport Taxiway Systems: Exploring challenges and opportunities based on the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol case

The almost ceaselessly growing Air Transportation System has led to concerns across airports on how to deal with this growth. Also Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS) experienced large increases in number of passengers and movements over the last decades: the current limit of 500,000 annual movements of the airport is (nearly) reached. Before...

Blockchain, for an enhanced passenger experience at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

This project is a graduation project for the master programme Strategic Product Design in collaboration with Schiphol Group. The goal of the project was to find out how blockchain technology can help Schiphol Group to enhance the passenger experience. Blockchain is seen as a technology that will disrupt many industries. But why is this? The core...

A multi-agent operational planning model for airport stakeholders: using capacity forecasts in winter scenarios

Behavioural Classification of Passengers in an Airport Terminal

Given the observable characteristics of a passenger in an airport, is it possible to predict their behaviour? This thesis researches the possibilities for finding behavioural classes that can help predict passenger behaviour in a passenger demand forecast (PDF) system that is developed for the European PASSME project. The thesis introduces a...

Cooperative taxfree articles solution

PASSME is a project funded by the European Union’s 2020 Horizon research and innovation program and it aims for fast airports and stress-free passenger journey. In order to achieve these goals, it has established ten work packages, each focusing on an element of the whole system. Work package 3 is concerning hand luggage and is managed by KLM...

A Study on the network performance of the road traffic system on airside at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Schiphol is growing. The growing number of aircrafts will lead to more handling services, like baggage handling, catering etc. These handling vehicles use the network system on airside. At the moment, no facts were presented about the performance of these network. Are there too many vehicles on airside? Or not? That is the focus of this research...