Major research to be conducted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) into airport operations and command and control has been received a one million Euro (AU$1,361,000) investment by Siemens to purchase Vantage, the company's leading software platform for command and control of critical infrastructure and incident response management.

 

QUT's Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering executive dean Professor Martin Betts said QUT was excited to explore and further develop the future capabilities of such command and control systems.

 

"In the airport scenario, we see a great opportunity for these systems to interface directly with the passenger to improve their experience. We also see a real need to develop more advanced performance management approaches for the airport operators and government agencies involved," Professor Betts said.

 

QUT's Airports of the Future technical director Dr Clinton Fookes said the Vantage platform would act as a massive Airport Data Repository."It will allow us to develop and enable not only the practical integration of the various research programs but also to put them into action in future operational systems," Dr Fookes said.

 

The Airports of the Future is a four-year international collaborative research project spanning seven interrelated research programs: Business Process Management; Business Continuity and Incident Response Management; Human Systems; Identity Management; Intelligent Surveillance; Airport Information Modelling; and Complex Systems