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Industry Leaders to Demonstrate “Integrated Airport” Technology at Daytona Beach International Airport

Daytona Beach, Fla., March 22, 2007 -- Technology for an “integrated airport” will be demonstrated March 27-28 at Daytona Beach International Airport (DBIA) by an aviation industry consortium led by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Lockheed Martin, and DBIA. The demonstration sessions will be held in the airport’s international terminal.

The Integrated Airport Project, to be implemented by the consortium over a three-year period, will showcase emerging technologies in safety, security, capacity, and overall efficiency of the next generation of airports. The effort comes amid industry predictions that air traffic will increase by 300 percent by the year 2025.

The Integrated Airport Project began in 2006 as a way to address such timely issues as airport security and business operations; airline dispatch and ramp operations; FAA terminal radar approach control and surface operations; and collaborative arrival and departure management.

“The intention is to show that applications and systems that have already been developed can be consolidated into a single integrated airport,” said Embry-Riddle Interim Provost Christina Frederick-Recascino. She added that Daytona Beach International Airport will be the national test bed for this project.

Embry-Riddle and its partners are proposing that half the cost of the project be covered by the private companies providing technological expertise. The other half would be obtained through federal sources by the agencies that manage the U.S. airspace.

In the few months since it began, the consortium has added industry partners Transtech Airport Solutions, ENSCO, Mosaic ATM, Jeppesen, and Sensis and is exploring the addition of new partners that would bring key technologies to the project.

The conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon each day. It is the first of three such gatherings planned for 2007.

Those interested in attending the event should contact Jean Coker at (386) 226-6634 or cokerj@erau.edu.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of arts and sciences, aviation, business, and engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through its Worldwide Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning.