With our solution Better Airport® we are delivering a solution, not a system. Our team consists of airport planning professionals, not IT implementation consultants. So why is distinction that important?Implementation of larger software solutions including multiple stakeholders is difficult. The chart below outlines the success...
5 key steps on how to adjust your airport to the current trends in airport security 1. Adapt quickly to changes – An example being the much-discussed ban on laptops between US-EU. If airports are to successfully evaluate, plan and act to overcome new regulations that will...
Feeling unwell? Taking the temperature will tell you if you have a fever. You probably knew this already, but the display on the thermometer will tell you to a certainty of +/-0.5% exactly how burning hot you are. The thermometer, however, won’t tell you what you...
Copenhagen Optimization has been nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Award. The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world’s most recognized growth cabinet competition, celebrating and honoring the best entrepreneurs in Denmark and Globally. The competition aims to recognize the...
Earlier this week we posted an article discussing the readiness of airports to move away from using outdated modeling methods in Excel to going cloud-based. This week yet another Trial of Better Security solution has been completed in a large European airport. Copenhagen Optimization has...
Interview Copenhagen Optimization's summer intern Luca Elianti from DTU Master Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Denmark[caption id="attachment_349221" align="alignnone" width="291"] Luca Elianti[/caption] It is summer and students from all over are rushing to be at music festivals, relaxing and catching up...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced their initial measure to counter the laptop threat: Electronic Trace Detection (ETD) of all laptops going to the USA from all international destinations. So, continuing from our previous blog post, how will airlines and airports tackle this demand operationally? We...
A large number of airports have outsourced their security operation to a third party staff provider, primarily with the aim of obtaining a lower cost of the security operation. The overall planning process remains the same but compared to a fully in-house operation; the outsourcing...
The ban on carrying laptops into the aircraft cabin, currently in place for several countries in the Middle East, is rumored to be extended to cover all European destinations including the UK. This afternoon the team at Copenhagen Optimization discussed what it will mean for...
Think back five years – at that time most boarding card checks at the security checkpoint were manual with limited logging of information. Today, boarding cards are scanned at the automated boarding card control resulting in actual arrival times of all passengers passing through the...