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The strategic design tool for everyday challenges
Transoft’s AviPLAN has established itself as the leading software package for airport airside planning, design and operations. Lena Rosenau, infrastructure planner at Hamburg Airport, and Bernard Goodworth, senior product manager for aviation at Transoft, explain how the software works and its capabilities for airside infrastructure management.
AviPLAN was developed with the needs of its users in mind, in response to feedback from people on the ground. F
or the past 30 years, Transoft Solutions has worked to become the leading name in transportation design and planning software. Back in 1991, two engineers came up with the disruptive CAD-based software AutoTURN. From there, Transoft has become a global company known for its innovative approach to software design. That journey led to the creation of
AviPLAN, which leverages a comprehensive understanding of the needs of the aviation industry, as well as an extensive library of highly accurate specifications for aircraft, ground support vehicles and passenger boarding bridges, to deliver the ultimate tool for any airside planning or design project, from newly built runways and stands to the remodelling of apron areas.
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AviPLAN’s features allow users to define and adjust aircraft manoeuvres and stand planning parameters ‘on the fly’, enabling users to complete key tasks in hours or even minutes, instead of days or weeks. This also makes it a powerful tool for smaller, day-to-day operational projects, including temporary works or minor adjustments to airport infrastructure, as well as large-scale remodelling projects. Yet it is this key application that is often overlooked. Take, for example, Hamburg Airport in Germany, where AviPLAN is used to design stands to accommodate existing passenger boarding bridges, add new aircraft to existing parking stands, design aircraft paths to show and prove clearances on aprons and taxiways, and
plan building sites on aprons and taxiways for short-term repair projects. “Those are the most important things we do with AviPLAN,” says Lena Rosenau, infrastructure planner at Hamburg Airport. “We use it for positioning aircraft and checking clearance distances, evaluating passenger boarding bridges to check if certain aircraft can be positioned on stands and that the slope is not too steep. It is a very practical tool for checking what stands an aircraft can use at the airport. Such projects are always ongoing.”
A powerful solution for everyday problems
A recent project at Hamburg Airport involved the remodelling of Apron 1. The airport needed to install new passenger
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