New upgrades, technologies emerge for air infrastructure

Bangalore, Feb 11 (UNI) As India prepares for a technological revolution in its airport infrastructure, exciting upgrades and innovations are flying fast.

And several global companies involved in airport development and operations have placed India high on their priority list.

Increased passenger and cargo traffic requires improvements to existing infrastructure, upgrading metro and non-metro airports, developing greenfield airports, introduction of modern technology to improve efficiency and upgrading its CNS/ATM (communication, navigation and surveillance/airspace and traffic management) facilities.

Mr Bob Johnson, chief executive of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), says opportunity exists for Indian airports to achieve high technological standards in infrastructure currently being rolled out around the world.

For instance, Fraport AG which owns and manages Frankfurt Main airport in Germany has many innovations in the pipeline including ETNA (electronic taxiway navigation array) that focuses on management processes. It helps prevent runway incursions and vehicle collisions through the use of optical and audio warning signals.

Fraport is also developing a precision approach monitor (PAM) which allows multiple runway capacity increase by reducing diagonal separation required by radar of 2.5 nautical miles between two aircraft by utilising a multilateration system.

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