ARC | CAST
About us
ARC (Airport Research Center GmbH) is a leading global provider of professional airport planning and decision support services. With the CAST Airport Software and real-time SOLUTIONS powered by CAST, ARC offers worldwide leading solutions which help to optimize investments and reduce operational costs. As a digital twin, CAST provides a unique simulation, allocation, prediction and optimization environment covering terminal, airside, landside, ground handling and all corresponding resources and processes. Based on advanced technologies, CAST allows to optimize passenger flows, resources and processes, leading to higher passenger satisfaction and reduced costs.
Address
Bismarckstr. 61
52066 Aachen
Germany
E-mail: contact@arc.de
Phone: +49 241 16843-0
Internet: www.arc.de
Contact person:
Uta Kohse
Managing Partner
E-mail: uta.kohse@arc.de
Phone: +49 241 1684328
Products & Services
CAST provides a unique simulation, allocation, prediction and optimization environment covering terminal, airside, ground handling and all corresponding resources and processes. Simulation based analysis allows to develop and test concepts with a digital twin of the airport and thus reduces the risks of a trial-and-error approach for passengers and staff in the real airport environment.
CAST SOLUTIONS allow to control and optimize terminal resources and processes, considering specific customer requirements and the individual situation at an airport. The services include the requirement analysis, technical integration as well as basic data evaluation and system calibration. Based on AI, machine learning and other advanced technologies, CAST SOLUTIONS allow to optimize passenger flows, resources and processes, leading to higher passenger satisfaction and reduced costs. In the following, you see a selection of ARC's product portfolio:
CAST Terminal: Airport Terminal Simulation Software
CAST Terminal provides scalable and realistic models of airport terminals and other passenger handling facilities. It enables decision support for planning, design, capacity analysis and optimization of terminal infrastructure and operational processes.
CAST Terminal is used to determine facility requirements and to validate new terminal layouts and processes in order to achieve maximum planning reliability at the earliest stage. Additionally, CAST Terminal provides great potentials to optimize the existing terminal facilities and processes within various operational scenarios.
CAST Stand & Gate Allocation: Airside Planning Tool
CAST Stand & Gate Allocation is the most powerful support tool for quick and cost-efficient resource allocation. The software supports airports, airlines and consulting companies in long-term, medium-term and (pre-) operational stand & gate planning and allocation tasks.
Applying CAST Stand & Gate Allocation leads to an optimized capacity, allows handling of higher traffic volumes and increases the quality of the allocation regarding passenger comfort, airline preferences and operational goals.
CAST Aircraft: Aircraft Traffic and Process Simulation
CAST Aircraft is the flexible, comprehensive and most efficient modelling tool for aircraft traffic at airports and in the airspace. CAST Aircraft enables a rapid, scenario based evaluation of systems in scalable levels of detail, for example to remove bottlenecks, plan resources or assess and improve a system‘s capacity.
CAST Vehicle: Ground Handling Vehicle Simulation
CAST Vehicle Ground Handling is the leading fast time simulation tool for evaluating airside vehicle traffic and ground handling processes. It offers decision support for planning, optimization and validation of the airside road network and ground support equipment (GSE) facilities.
With CAST Vehicle Ground Handling, operations and infrastructure can be evaluated rapidly in scalable levels of detail, in order to improve the airside layout, plan resources or optimize operations.
CAST Express: Facility Requirement & Capacity Planning Software
CAST Express provides fast simulation and analysis of airport terminal processes.
It offers advanced facility requirement analyses to support the optimized planning of facilities and resources. In daily use, the user can e.g. quickly test changes in the operation by supplying the simulation model with changed parameters such as the flight schedule or operational parameters.
CAST Real-Time SOLUTIONS
Real-Time SOLUTIONS powered by CAST enable fast, predictive analysis of the various processes in airport terminals. Integrated into the airport’s operating systems, this solution provides the best possible view on the next hours of operations. Thus, airport operators can use and staff resources more efficiently than before.
Passenger flows, numbers, and distribution as well as resource and facility requirements for the next minutes and hours are continuously calculated and the results / KPIs are distributed to all relevant stakeholders enabling them to proactively manage resources and optimize passenger flows.
