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An Airport without Airplanes: The Siemens Airport CenterSiemens has built an airport in order to test and present high-tech solutions for check-in, baggage transport and parking guidance systems.
Only airplanes, a control tower and runways are missing from the Siemens Airport Center (SAC) in Fürth near Nuremberg, Germany.
The facility is about the size of a soccer field and contains the entire infrastructure normally found at an airport, including check-in counters, a luggage conveyor, a parking guidance system and a control center.
The SAC enables Siemens to simulate and extensively test complex processes together with customers.
It shows that the company can offer complete solutions for airports thanks to the bundling of competences from several Siemens businesses.
SAC allows real-time simulations with all relevant influential factors, including passengers checking in, which makes it possible for Siemens to improve its planning for real projects and implement such projects more rapidly.
Experts at the Boston Consulting Group expect that the continuing urbanization megatrend will lead to investments of $200 billion in airports between now and 2015.
In Beijing, for example, a new terminal is currently being built that will accommodate 30 million passengers per year, doubling capacity at the airport.
Terminal 3 has to be completed in time
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January 1, 2005 | Viewed 32,130 time(s)
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