Quickly create design day flight schedules

A Design Day Flight Schedule (DDFS) is vital input for many planning tasks, such as airport saturation studies or the analysis of stand and gate requirements. When it comes to airport and airspace fast-time simulation studies, a detailed DDFS is essential. AirTOP Flight Schedule streamlines the creation of a DDFS by transforming the outcomes and data from air traffic forecast studies into input for simulation studies. It creates the flight pattern of any imported flight schedule, which can be used to generate a future DDFS in combination with other inputs such as annual, daily, and peak hour movements. With automation, traceability, and seamless integration with other AirTOP modules, it reduces manual input and potential data entry errors, saving users time for setting up and analyzing simulation scenarios.

What Makes AirTOP Flight Schedule Unique

Supports full traceability

Every processing step followed by the user is recorded, allowing them to maintain a holistic view of all executed changes and to revert to or edit any previous changes.

Saves user's time

Automated functions and guided workflows make creating and modifying flight schedules quick and efficient.

Delivers automated data pipeline

Users can visualize the final or any intermediate output at each processing step. Any modification to a step will automatically update the output of a subsequent processing steps.

Seamless integration

Flight Schedule is integrated within the AirTOP software, providing a seamless experience when used alongside other AirTOP modules, like Terminal, Aircraft Airside, and TMA/TRACON for a unified workflow.

Features

Streamline turning air traffic forecast data into a DDFS

AirTOP Flight Schedule is the perfect tool for streamlining the creation of a future design day flight schedule (DDFS). Automated functions, guided workflows and process traceability make creating and modifying flight schedules quick and efficient.

• Convert air traffic forecasting gross numbers into a reliable DDFS
• Have full traceability of every processing step
• Record all changes for easy tracking and reversions
• Seamless integration with other AirTOP modules for efficient simulation and planning

Generate reports

Easily report KPIs such as Peak Hour Passenger (PHP), Million Passenger Per Annum (MPPA), and Air Traffic Movements (ATM), and compare traffic samples by analyzing rolling periods, flight peaks, passenger peaks, fleet mix, daily traffic, passenger numbers, airline market share, and more.

Create flight patterns

Effortlessly extract the flight pattern of any imported flight schedule and then reuse it to generate a future DDFS in combination with other inputs like annual, daily, and peak hour movements.

Create flight schedules

Quickly translate common results of traffic forecast studies, e.g., expected annual, daily, and peak hour demand figures for aircraft and passengers, into a DDFS that complies with a given flight pattern.

Combine flight schedules

Selectively merge two or more flight schedules to generate a new flight schedule. For example, merge domestic traffic, cargo traffic, and international traffic from three different flight schedules into one.

Limit peaks

The tool automatically redistributes flights around peaks to not exceed the limit set by the user. For example, if the runway limit is 50 movements, the software will ensure that the maximum ATM peak is 50 by redistributing flights to adjacent time periods.

Conduct sensitivity analysis

Carry out sensitivity analyses by quickly increasing/decreasing specific traffic, e.g. specific destinations, airlines, time of day, or randomizing flight operation times or turnaround durations.

Link flights

Match turnaround flights with specific rules when aircraft registration information is missing.