Vnukovo aircraft and specialized machinery location monitoring solution has been launched into industrial operation

The SmartRamp® navigation and information solution implementation has started in Vnukovo more than a year ago in cooperation with the airport’s partner, the largest Russian developer of navigation and communication equipment, a leading vendor of navigation services, the SpaceTeam® holding.

The SmartRamp® is integrated with the main airport process and resource management system, Inform Groundstar, and is de facto the only solution, that fully complies with the requirements of the wide range of regulatory acts regarding carriage of passengers and dangerous freight.

By the order of the director general Andrew Dyakov, Vnukovo International Airport has brought the SmartRamp one-of-a-kind integrated aircraft and specialized machinery location monitoring solution into industrial operation.

The Project started over a year ago in cooperation with the airport’s partner, the largest Russian developer of navigation and communication equipment, a leading vendor of navigation services, the SpaceTeam® holding. The SpaceTeam® monitoring solution is integrated with the main airport process and resource management system, Inform Groundstar, and de facto is the only solution, that fully complies with the requirements of the wide range of regulatory acts regarding the carriage of passengers and dangerous freight.

Mapping the instantaneous positions of specialized machinery at the airside and aircraft at parking positions as well as during taxi, with the full several month movement history retention – is only a small part of the capabilities of the SmartRamp® monitoring solution based on the ST CrossPoint® software. A result of the monitoring system implementation, main goals achieved are: ensuring of the airside safety regulations, procedures and standards, aircraft ground handling and turnaround time reduction, and, consequently, operation efficiency and passenger safety improvement.

The users of the ST CrossPoint® software are flying safety staff, mobile operations staff, operating unit executives, flight operations staff and ground service executives.

Flying safety staff is now able to monitor all the possible airside protocol violations and eliminate potential accident situation conditions. At the present time, response criteria are dangerous proximity and exceeding speed limit, but the system is capable to accept any other conditions through an operator resolution, such as route deviation and violation of a designated area. Such conditions can be applied to all monitored units as well as to specific types of vehicles, garage registration numbers, etc.

An important system efficiency boost factor is its integration with the Inform Groundstar airport process and resource management system, and its main elements – time of arrival estimation and resource management.

This integration allows the visualization capabilities, providing the combined display of aircraft movements and flight status, as well as airfield vehicles and complete information about respective operators. In total, the system is capable to track more than 30 parameters of each unit, which significantly speeds up the dispatcher decision-making. It is important to mention, that the specialized machinery is tracked within and outside airport premises.

«Vnukovo» aircraft and specialized machinery location monitoring solution utilizes navigation and communication hardware, that is fully compliant with the Ministry of Transportation Decree №285.

Today the solution provides a display of all the aircraft on the airfield and airside of the Vnukovo airport and controls the operation of more than 380 vehicle units. In perspective, the airport plans to equip 250 more vehicles and completely forbid all non-GLONASS units to enter the airside.

Vnukovo International Airport is one of the largest aviation hubs in Russia. The airport handles more than 150,000 flights of Russian and foreign airlines annually. Airport’s route map covers the whole territory of the Russian Federation and CIS countries, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

Vnukovo airfield has two intersecting runways: the joint throughput capacity is 58 movements per hour. The airport Vnukovo -1 consists of two terminals: a new passenger terminal A with total floor space of 270 thousand square meters which was opened in December 2012 and a passenger terminal with total floor space of 25 thousand square meters.

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