Integrated Multimodal Airport Operations for Efficient Passenger Flow Management

IMHOTEP is a project within the SESAR research initiative of the European Commission and EUROCONTROL.

Project information

Client: SESAR
Duration: 30 months (June 2020 - November 2022)

90% of door-to-door travel times should be under 4 hours by 2050 (Flightpath 2050, European Commission). Currently, however, the average is 6.2 hours and over 7.5 hours for departures in outlying areas (e.g. Canary Islands). Airports, which serve as intermodal nodes in a multimodal transport network, prove to be critical infrastructure. In addition to the flight, the airport access and egress must also be taken into account. For this purpose, passengers have various options at their disposal, such as cars, public transport, taxis, etc. The aim of IMHOTEP is to develop a real-time support tool for connecting airports and ground transport. This allows the exchange of necessary information, coordinated transport management, and a quick reaction in case of disruptions of a transport mode. Linking passenger flows, ground and air transport enable higher efficiency and quality of travel and more robust planning of infrastructure resources.

Project tasks of the chair

The main task of the project team is to develop a terminal model of London City Airport (LCY) in the CAST simulation environment. This enables the analysis of passenger flows in the airport under different scenarios. By linking this with data from the ground transport models, enables verification of the impact of using the IMHOTEP tool on the quality of passenger processes in the terminal.