Airport forecasting across three planning horizons, with short-term planning rebuilt

We built a statistics and forecasting suite for airport planning on short, medium and long-term horizons, and fully redeveloped the short-term planning product.

All horizons

Short, medium and long-term forecasting in one suite

Symbios AG / Beontra AG project showcase

The Challenge

Symbios AG / Beontra AG's short-term planning product for airports needed more functionality, better performance and an easier interface. Airport operators plan resources on three horizons, short, medium and long term, and needed statistics and forecasting for all three. Quality measures and a professional development process also still had to be put in place.

The Approach

We developed the statistics and forecasting suite with PHP, Symfony and Propel on the back end and ExtJS on the front end, connected to MySQL, Oracle and MS-SQL databases. We redeveloped the short-term planning product completely, adding functionality, improving performance and simplifying the interface. Alongside the code, we introduced quality measures and a professional development process built on Jenkins and Maven.

The Results

Airport operators now work in one suite for statistics and forecasting across all three planning horizons. The rebuilt short-term planning product performs better and makes it easier for planners to access and analyze data. Planners can now base resource allocation on data for the short, medium and long term.

All horizons

Short, medium and long-term forecasting in one suite