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Over the past 35 years, the Aviation Logistics department has successfully completed more than 130 industrial and research projects in Germany, Europe, North America and beyond.

 

Below you will find an overview of the most important projects of recent years. For a complete overview of the department's previous projects, please contact us.

Current Projects

 

Digitales Testfeld Air Cargo (DTAC)

The Digital Testbed Air Cargo (DTAC) is a BMDV-funded project that researches digital solutions to increase efficiency in the air cargo industry.

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TULIPS

TULIPS is an EU consortium that promotes innovations for sustainable mobility at airports in order to achieve emission-free airports by 2030 and climate-neutral aviation by 2050.

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FLITE

FLITE is a consortium that aims to develop a synthetic paraffinic paraffin (SPK) production plant using alcohol-to-jet technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and utilise non-food-based ethanol.

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NE:ONE Play

NE:ONE Play is a unique application for visualising linked ONE Record data. It is user-friendly and makes it easy to explore and edit this data, even for non-IT specialists.

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BagBOT

The project aims to automate manual baggage handling at airports in order to improve working conditions. A fully automated system for baggage handling is planned, possibly with a remote-controlled robot.

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SySta

The aim of the project is to optimise the stowage planning of loading units in freight forwarding, air and sea freight terminals. It is being carried out in co-operation between the Fraunhofer IML in Frankfurt and the Fraunhofer CML in Hamburg.

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Strategic conceptual design for the Munich Airport Air Cargo Site

The holistic structural development of cargo locations at airports aims to ensure customer service, the development of offers and infrastructure as well as the promotion of demand and marketing of the cargo location.

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Development of the freight handling site at Frankfurt Airport

On behalf of Fraport AG, the Air Transport Logistics Project Centre has drawn up a concept for the relocation and redesign of the Neutral Cargo Transfer Point (NFÜP) in CargoCity South at Frankfurt/Main Airport.

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Extension concept for Cargocity Frankfurt II

In the airport's expansion programme, 27 hectares of space next to CargoCity South are earmarked for air cargo handling. In order to maintain its market position among cargo airports, the infrastructure for the air cargo industry must be further expanded.

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Lufthansa Cargo Truck-Dock - planning and realization

The expansion of Frankfurt Airport with taxiways to the new runway requires a reorganisation of the processes for road feeder services (RFS) at the Lufthansa Cargo Center (LCC) and the construction of a new RFS truck dock for the truck handling of aircraft loading units.

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Central warehouse of Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH

As part of long-term planning at Frankfurt Airport, new operating and location concepts were analysed. Fraunhofer IML's Air Transport Logistics Project Centre was tasked with examining the feasibility of the central warehouse at a new location with limited space availability and high time requirements for logistics processes.

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Expansion of the Air Cargo Center at Vienna airport

Due to the increasing volume of freight, capacity bottlenecks are becoming apparent at Vienna Airport. Fraunhofer Austria and Fraunhofer IML were commissioned by Flughafen Wien AG to develop additional cargo handling areas as part of a demand-orientated expansion.

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Trends in baggage logistics and their impact on airport infrastructure

Die Abteilung Luftverkehrslogistik sowie das Center für Maritime Logistik des Fraunhofer IML wurde von der Flughafen Hamburg GmbH beauftragt, aktuelle Trends sowie deren Auswirkungen für den Standort Hamburg zu erfassen und zu bewerten.

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Simulation of apron traffic at Athens International Airport

The aim of the project carried out by the Aviation Logistics Project Centre was to use IML's own simulation tool SIMIS to model the functional facilities and future operational processes and to test and evaluate them with regard to overall traffic. In addition to ground traffic, taxiing traffic on the apron was also taken into account.

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Landside traffic concept Cargo Center Miami Airport

The planned expansion of Frankfurt Airport will significantly change apron traffic. New handling facilities for aircraft, passengers, baggage and freight will lead to a change in the spatial structure of traffic relations and a higher volume of traffic.

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RESILOC

RESILOC aimed to improve the resilience of local communities to hazards by combining local knowledge with national and international resources. The project developed a comprehensive framework of studies, methods and software tools that took into account both the physical infrastructure and the behaviour of people in the communities.

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Aresibo

ARESIBO focuses on the operational and tactical levels by covering a wide range of multipurpose border operations and coast guard functions, including border surveillance and area assessment, patrols and operations, situational awareness, analysis of potential threats, search and rescue activities and joint planning of field operations.

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Heli4Rescue

The EU-funded ‘Heavy payload helicopter for last mile rescue’ (HELI4RESCUE) research project is designed to define and advance the development of large and fast aircraft over the last mile in the event of a disaster.

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Taxiway deviation measurement study

Fraunhofer IML is investigating the relationship between aircraft size and taxiing accuracy for Fraport AG at Frankfurt Airport using extensive field measurements and statistical analyses. An automated measurement setup with a laser scanner records the aircraft's taxiing behaviour over a defined section.

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Market analysis for air cargo handling services

A company in the air freight handling market is planning to expand at European level. The Fraunhofer IML Project Centre for Air Transport Logistics was commissioned to investigate the market conditions, the competitive situation and the opportunities and risks of possible commitments.

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Jet blast measurement study

Against this background, the Air Traffic Logistics Project Centre developed a suitable measurement setup for Fraport AG as the operator of Frankfurt/Main Airport to test the jet blast at defined points and carried out an initial evaluation of the previous planning approach based on isotach curves.

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Picture of the Future: AR ULD Build-Up

AR makes it possible to check compliance with the contour at any time by placing a virtual grid over the installation station on which the ULD is installed. This allows errors to be recognised and rectified at an early stage.

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EffizienzCluster - Integrated Air Cargo Hub (IACH)

The overarching goal of IACH is to increase efficiency within the air freight transport chain by interlinking and improving the flow of information and the coordination of processes between the parties involved. Central interface areas of the parties involved are taken into account in the further procedure.

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Air Cargo Rail Center (AC/RC)

The aim of the ‘AirCargo RailCenter’ research project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, is to shift air freight transport from road to rail using innovative handling technology for lorry trailers. The Fraunhofer IML is working together with partners such as Fraport AG, Panalpina and DB Schenker Rail Deutschland.

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Clean Sky

Clean Sky is the most ambitious aviation research programme ever launched in Europe. Its mission is to significantly increase the environmental compatibility of aircraft and air traffic through the development of ground-breaking technologies, resulting in less noise and more fuel-efficient aircraft.

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CAST Vehicle - Apron traffic simulation

CAST Vehicle is a powerful software for modelling and evaluating airport apron traffic. It utilises modern multi-agent technology for the simulated interaction of processes and traffic. With CAST Vehicle, new concepts and strategies can be quickly evaluated in terms of bottlenecks and resource and capacity requirements.

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