Four U.S. Airports Sign for Various PASSUR Applications

Dallas Fort Worth International, Boston Logan, Orlando, as well as Detroit's Metro and Willow Run have selected various airport applications from Metadata's PASSUR suite of airport tools to help manage their operations.

Most recently, Dallas Fort Worth purchased subscriptions to multiple PASSUR programs and modules including Portal, Pulse, and Insight.  While one of airport's key objectives was to improve its collection of landing fee revenue it also wanted to:

• Improve the decision-making of its managers and emergency coordinators through accurate and complete airport information, such as PASSUR ETAs, runway information, and visual flight following.
• Respond faster to operational needs, especially during irregular operations.
• Provide more accurate flight status to the public.
• Match demand to capacity, both in real time and in planning mode, with better use of metrics such as runway utilization, dwell time, on-times, fleet mix, and detailed O and D (origin and destination) statistics, via online reports.

The Pulse Audit module accesses reports of arrivals and departures, including detailed owner/operator information, maximum certificated weights by tail number, seat configurations, runway utilization, dwell times, and other details in aggregate and by individual flight.  Its Proactive Billing module allows managers to view and download landing fee reports that are automatically generated by the PASSUR database of flight information.

Portal aids collaborative decision-making by providing managers with an instant, live snapshot of vital operational information on a "Web dashboard" of multiple information sets.  It is also the main access point for all other PASSUR Web services.

PASSUR inSight combines en-route tracking with its own terminal-area tracking that uses the PASSUR network of supporting radars.

Boston Logan

Boston Logan has deployed Metadata's PASSUR OPSnet to help manage both routine operations, as well as irregular weather episodes interruptions during construction activities.

OPSnet is a secure Web portal that can provide instant communication, information sharing, coordinated decision-making, and resource management for any approved airport manager from any Internet-connected personal computer.  Among other things, it has detailed field condition report templates, airline slot self-management tools, weather updates, and automated flight status information.

Boston also uses Metadata's PASSUR's Portal, Pulse and graphical flight tracking and airspace status tools.

Detroit and Orlando

In early December, the Wayne County Airport Authority, which runs Detroit Metro and Willow Run, purchased a subscription to Pulse to track, audit and capture its landing fee revenues, and the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority contracted for Metadata's PASSUR RightETA to feed all of its passenger FIDS (flight information display systems) with more accurate information.  12-26-2006.

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