Terminal-to-Terminal Fast-Time Modeling and Simulation
AirTOP® airport and airspace simulation software is a comprehensive suite of tools to model, simulate, and visualize airport and air traffic operations—in fast-time. Allowing organizations to study the implications of infrastructural or operational changes before investing in costly and time-consuming construction projects or altering procedures.
Use AirTOP to measure and improve terminal, airside or airspace capacity, pinpoint delays, determine the impact of revised flight schedules, simulate new operational procedures, assess air traffic controller workload, and more. Choose to assess individual aspects of airport and airspace operations or run complete gate-to-gate, or terminal-to-terminal analyses. The software runs hours of procedures in mere minutes, so you can quickly assess outcomes of different scenarios and confidently make decisions that translate into safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations.
AirTOP is a modular solution, offering the flexibility to purchase the modules you need with the option to add modules over time. Take a look at the airport and airspace modules below and see what suits your needs best.
Analyze passenger terminal performance, capacity, and resource allocation by modeling operational processes and people & baggage flows.
Study aircraft operations, review performance indicators and test scenarios to optimize procedures, validate designs and improve capacity.
Extend airside studies by modeling the movements and handling procedures of support equipment vehicles.
Optimize runway system throughput and performance, including demand and schedules, fleet mix, and modes of operation.
Boost terminal airspace performance by modeling approach and departure procedures and simulating air traffic flows.
Assess en route airspace metrics by modeling and evaluating air traffic control procedures in high fidelity.
Extend en route studies by modeling air traffic flow management concepts such as 4D trajectories ad demand-capacity balancing.
Integrate real-time air traffic demand to forecast complexity & controller workload, assess what-if scenarios, and support area control center decisions.
Platform Compatibility
Platform Requirements
Java 17 64-bits
System Requirements
Full support for 64-bit operating systems
Windows® 8 or later
MacOS® X 10 or later
Linux kernel 2.6 or later (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)
English
What Makes AirTOP Unique
Visualize the problem - and the solution - in 2D and 3D
Seeing a problem often makes it easier to identify solutions. To test different scenarios and measure impacts, AirTOP accurately simulates all user-defined airport and airspace operations, as well as rules, multi-agent tasks, and behaviors. A single graphical user interface provides easy scenario editing, as well as viewing of simulations in 2D and 3D. AirTOP features an easy-to-use integrated map-based application containing GIS capabilities, to allow a flexible background display of scanned maps, aeronautical charts or vector data, weather data, satellite images, and elevation data.
Customize data for better decision-making
AirTOP data is highly customizable and can be extracted and visualized using hundreds of built-in reports, or exported as spreadsheets or SQL databases for presentation to stakeholders. Create videos of simulations to portray the impacts of different scenarios to decision-makers. The project management tool allows users to define scenario variants while avoiding data duplication.
Purchase only the modules you need
AirTOP modules integrate with one another on a common platform to offer a scalable feature set. An airport project may begin with the Airside Aircraft module, and as operations grow in size or complexity, additional modules such as Airside Vehicle or TMA/TRACON can be added to extend the software’s capabilities.
Make better, more-informed decisions
Complicated decisions involving multiple moving parts require more than a simple spreadsheet. When considering making changes to airport or airspace operations or infrastructure, AirTOP assists with infomed decision making. Accurately model any airport or airspace operation, and run fast-time simulations of complex scenarios to test options and examine all the ‘what-ifs.’
Get the most out of airport and airspace operations and capacity
At an airport, delays of minutes and the associated knock-on effects can translate into impacts on the bottom line. AirTOP’s broad spectrum of tools allows users to assess how scenarios impact various aspects of airport operations, and how decisions play out in terms of costs and efficiency.
What’s New in AirTOP
New features, fixes, and other improvements built specifically with your feedback.
Get all the benefits of the latest release by upgrading your software.
This latest version is launched as AirTOP 2024 as Transoft Solutions is adopting a new annual product versioning system. This new approach makes it easier to understand which version you are running to help ensure that you stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and security patches.
Key features in this new release are:
New features
- Terminal | A new wizard makes it quicker and easier to set up terminal models.
- Terminal | ICAO size codes and IATA Level of Service (LoS) are now available by default on each project to help users save time.
- Airside Aircraft | The new Decision Reporter adapter shows which rules were applied to any given aircraft, making it easier to understand the impact of an operational rule. It also shows which rules were not applied, allowing users to identify possible mistakes in the rule conditions.
- Runway Capacity Analyzer | It’s now possible to generate default Aircraft Type Approach Profiles without having predefined traffic in the project, benefiting analyses that use generated traffic mixes.
- TMA/TRACON | A new feature provides more flexibility to pause a simulation based on Runway Arrival Sequence events, and debug your model.
Improved features
- TMA/TRACON | You can now use vectoring areas to adjust the descent profile for a steep approach, preventing aircraft from descending faster than the Aircraft Type performance limitations.
- All Modules | It’s no longer necessary to apply randomization manually as it will be automatically assigned when running multiple simulations in sequence.
- The height between levels in the 3D view can be expanded so that users can see each level layout clearly
- Ignore Global Filter in dataset selection has been added so that users do not need to go back and forth to activate/deactivate the Terminal Filter
- Direction Path has been enhanced to reproduce a more realistic behavior.
- In Terminal Processor Schedule Rule, the Airport Usage Phase option has been added, simplifying the setup of the rule
- In Waiting Area Duration tab, Flight Plan column has been added, simplifying the durations set up
- Gates can be set to open before the departure flight is at the parking position
- When running Terminal only, aircraft that have two consecutive arrivals to the same airport or two consecutive departures from the same airport will be allowed
- A wizard for creating new airport models
- Microsoft Bing Maps integration to display satellite imagery on the map
- BADA Importer is available in the TMA/TRACON and Airside Aircraft modules
- Additional parking options for aircraft arriving at remote stands
- New drone sample project showing VTOL operations
- Inter-terminal transportation with Automated People Movers (APM)
- Passenger terminal to airside connection enhancements
- Support for GRIB files to import temperature values
- SIDs can now be displayed on the map making use of SID Profiles
Licensing Options
Transoft offers a range of licensing options to help small, sole proprietorships right on up to the largest multinational organizations meet their transportation design and analysis needs.
User Subscription License is a model where a set number of Subscribed Users are assigned dedicated access to the software through their unique logins for the duration of the license term. The software can be installed and used by a Subscribed User on multiple workstations.
Each Subscribed User represents one individual and their login and password, which cannot be shared with other users. Software activation is an easy process and can be done over the Internet.
Why Choose the User Subscription License Option
User Subscription License offers a cost-effective way for small businesses to start with one user and grow by adding additional users. For larger organizations, it will offer more flexibility in user administration and management via the My Transoft Portal. Furthermore, it can easily handle scalability and budgeting as per the business needs defined by the number of users.
Key Benefits of User Subscription License
- Automatic updates, new features, and content
Bug fixes, compatibility, and new version releases. - Easily manage your changing business needs
With enhanced scalability and user management. - Install the software and log in from anywhere
Access your workstation, laptop, or personal desktop. - Unlimited technical support
Receive premium assistance for all your deployments and technical support needs. - Invitations to learning-focused webinars
Attend learning-focused webinars from our product experts and learn how our software can help streamline design processes. - Flexible user license options
Choose from single to multiple user packages to meet your business needs. - Simple user administration
User Management can be performed in the My Transoft Portal, via invitation links or by Identity Provider Single Sign-on with User Provisioning.
Have more questions about User Subscription? See the FAQ here.
Team Subscription License is a license option that is intended to support casual or occasional users of the software. The size of a Team Subscription License is represented as a number of allocatable seats.
Why Choose the Team Subscription License Option
While User Subscription Licenses are better for dedicated users, Team Subscription Licenses can be a good complement to these if your organization has occasional, less heavy users of the software.
How it Works
Each user of a Team Subscription License must have an account in the My Transoft Portal to request a license. Internet access is required for this process.
When an end user starts the software product on their workstation, the software will connect to the My Transoft Portal and will determine if any of the seats are available. If a seat is available, it will be allocated and dedicated to that end user who will have unrestricted access to it for 24 hours. At the end of the 24-hour period the seat allocation will automatically expire, and another user will be able to claim it.
Once all the Team Subscription License seats are allocated at a given time, no other end user will be able to use that license until the 24-hour period expires and one of the seats is automatically deallocated.
Key Benefits of Team Subscription License
- More flexibility for your team members
Allows access to software for casual users without having to spend on dedicated licenses for all users. - Less administrative effort by IT
Easy access to software for casual users without IT having to allocate or transfer licenses amongst team members, self-administered by users with automatic 24-hour lock. - Combined Team & User Subscription option
Flexibility of mixing plans according to the needs of different user types. - Automatic updates, new features, and content
Bug fixes, compatibility, new version releases, or vehicle guidelines are automatically available to you. - Easily manage your changing business needs
With enhanced scalability and user management. - Install the software and log in from anywhere
Access your workstation, laptop, or personal desktop with Single Sign-on. - Unlimited technical support
Receive premium assistance for all your deployments and technical support needs. - Invitations to learning-focused webinars
Attend learning-focused webinars from our product experts and learn how our software can help streamline design processes. - Simple user administration
User Management can be performed in the My Transoft Portal, via invitation links or by Identity Provider Single Sign-on with User Provisioning.
Network License
A Network license allows everyone within an office location to access the software from the company server with one person concurrently using at a time. Network licenses are not tied to a particular workstation or user. Multiple Network license seats can be purchased, and a license server keeps track of how many licenses are in use at one time. When Transoft’s software on a Network license starts, it first checks to see if a Network license is available to use. If so, a license is then checked out from the pool of licenses. When a user exits the application, the license gets checked back into the pool making it available to other users.
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Licensing Options
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