An Independent Air Traffic Management and Airports Consultancy
Specialising in concept development, systems deployment and performance improvement.
SERVICES
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
The thought of replacing an ATM system, either in part or in full, can be daunting. We help guide ANSPs through this process, making sure that the right jobs are being done at the right time to achieve a safe, acceptable, on-time and on-budget implementation.
SIMULATION
Simulation is a capability at the core of our services. It allows you to test new concepts, systems or operators in a realistic way without using your actual platform or compromising operational safety
ANALYTICS
In today’s digital ATM environment one of the most useful tools in understanding your ATM Operations is Analytics. Through the use of advanced analytical methods Think can help airport and ATM stakeholders make better decisions.
case studies
DEVELOP
Defining, maturing and validating new concepts and systems.
Deploy
Helping you implement new concepts and systems in your environment.
IMPROVE
Using real world data to understand and optimise operations.
news & views
New ANS Collaboration Opportunities for the Asia Pacific Region
A few weeks ago, during the CANSO Asia Pacific Conference 2022 in Goa, we learnt more about ANS provision in APAC and the challenges that the actors in the region are facing.
It was announced during the conference that Think Research will work hand in hand with Poh
Surface access for PRMs & passengers with disabilities- how can airports do better?
When considering provision of disability services at airports it is important to answer what appears to be a simple question. How is disability defined? Disability is made up of several dimensions, including mobility, sensory, communication, intellectual/mental ...
THE FUTURE OF TOWER AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES (ANS)
Tower Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs)- aerodrome and approach, are faced with the challenges of managing growth whilst controlling expenditure, improving the environmental performance of ground and flight operations and supporting the implementation of future operational concepts for en-route airspace. We've written in the past about the future of airport operations, but it seems timely to also visit the topic of the future of Tower ANS in light of increased environmental pressures leading to new airspace concepts such as the stated intent of many large ANSPs to operate their airspace utilising Trajectory Based Operations (TBO).
Think supports EUROCONTROL on Virtual Centres SESAR project
Over the last 18 months, Think has supported EUROCONTROL on their role leading the development of the operational concept for Virtual Centres within SESAR (PJ32).
Last week, we had the opportunity to learn how the concept could work in practice. Alexandra ...
General Aviation Airspace Infringements- Causal Factors & Mitigations
Controlled airspace infringements caused by general aviation (GA) pilots is a fascinating topic, as it is a consistent problem in the UK’s airspace, evident as one of the most common occurring incident types.
Keeping The Drone Revolution Quiet
What challenges must be overcome if we are to keep the drone and UAM revolution quiet so as to avoid community protest and operating curfews?
There are regular news articles about deliveries by drone as the zero-emission alternative to delivery vans ...
Think appointed Secretary to CANSO’s Green ATM accreditation programme
Last month at World ATM Congress in Madrid, Michelle Bishop (Director, Programmes at CANSO) and Think Principal Consultant, Nick Boud, officially launched a new independent Environmental Accreditation Programme - GreenATM.
The new programme has been designed to ...
Thinks 3-Year Approach to Toronto
On the 28th May NAV CANADA, the Canadian Air Traffic Services Provider, went live with the Intelligent Approach™ (IA) system. This is a significant achievement for the NATS and Leidos joint project that has developed and implemented the system for Toronto ...
UAM & the ICAO Balanced Approach – What are the challenges?
The first scheduled commercial air service was flown in 1914 by the St. Petersburg – Tampa Airboat Line. By the mid-1950s communities in the vicinity of US airports began to complain about the level of noise
Think expands operations further with new base in Farnborough
This week we are pleased to announce the official opening of a new Think office, based in Farnborough. The new office, which is our second opening this year, is located at The Hub in Farnborough Business Park and will be an additional base to our HQ in ...
Presentation at the Ergonomic & Human Factors Conference
This month, Hanna Neroj will be attending the Ergonomics & Human Factors Conference 2022 which is being held by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomic and Human Factors in Birmingham. The event will be exploring novelties in tools and techniques used for Human ...
Think appoints new Account Director
We are pleased to welcome Colin Smith to the Think team this week, who joins us as Account Director and member of our leadership team. Colin has over 30 years’ experience within the ATM industry across a number of roles and has real passion for driving innovation. ...
The Data Analytics Toolbox: Rolling Joins
Data science can be intimidating. The truth about the field is that truly every day is a school day and we are learning and improving all the time. Today, I wanted to talk about one of our favourite methods in our ever-expanding analytics toolkit – the rolling ...
Think increases expertise in economics, regulation and UAS
2022 is the year for growth here at Think, so what better way to start the year than by welcoming 2 new members to the Think Team.
Last Month Rifayat Miah joined the team as an analyst. Rifayat is no stranger to the team having completed her internship with us back
Think expands operations with new Middle East base
Think Research is pleased to announce the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary company and the opening of a new base in Qatar. The new base was formally opened on 24th October 2021, coinciding with World ATM Congress in Madrid with keys to the permanent office ...
Think contributes to ATC Network UTM bulletin
We were invited by ATC Network to give our insight and views on UTM in relation to Air Traffic Management as part of their special bulletin entitled: "UTM U-SPACE".Our Technical Director, Paul Ravenhill uses his 30 years’ experience of working on ATM ...
Re-fuelling aviation, SAF, Hydrogen or Electric?
We don’t have a crystal ball or the luxury of hindsight when it comes to re-fuelling aviation but developing scenarios may help avoid some of the pit falls.
How do we improve the flying passenger’s experience?
It is time to fly again. Due to the pandemic this normal frequent flyer hasn’t flown for 18 months. Coincidently my first flight back will be the same route as the last one I cancelled – Heathrow to Madrid for the World ATM Congress.It is a fairly regular ...
Think Continue To Support CANSO Smart Digital Tower Task Force
Despite the challenges the past year posed within the aviation industry, the CANSO Smart Digital Tower Task Force (SDT TF) have continued working hard in assisting the international effort for harmonised deployment of Digital Towers through developing guidance ...
Autonomous Vehicles In Airports
When will your baggage drive itself to the aircraft?
Autonomous ground vehicles (AV) are being investigated and adopted by airports around the world to fulfil several functions from automated car parking through to baggage transport. They are increasingly capable ...
Matching Terminal Capacity To Demand During The Recovery
The recovery of sorts is finally underway. The overall traffic levels in Europe appear to be heading upwards and tracking a trend that would show movements to be back to pre-Covid levels by 2024. Whilst we recognise there may still be some turbulence still to come, as an industry we can start to focus on better times ahead (but perhaps still with seatbelts fastened).
Exploring The Possibilities of UAM
One of the topics that has not been put on hold over the last 19 months is the development of eVTOLs and UAM. This is the third aviation revolution and will therefore play an important role in the future of mobility for both people and cargo. We recently had ...
Finalists in the Investors in People Award
We are pleased to announce that we have been selected as a finalist in this year’s Investors in People awards. The awards aim to recognise the organisations who made a significant commitment to their people in the past year. Think is a finalist in the Small ...
Airspace Considerations for UK Spaceports
With Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin recently launching their CEOs to space, space tourism has arrived. For a mere $250,000 you can enjoy 3-5 minutes of weightlessness. Bargain!
Now there are no plans for space tourism in the UK - yet - but the UK ...
The Journey Towards Jet Zero
In June 2019 the UK became the first major economy to pass legislation that commits the country to net zero emissions by 2050, which basically means to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 100%.
Vlad Nasta joins Think on a 12 week virtual placement
This month we welcomed Vlad Nasta to the Think Team. Vlad joins us as part of a 12 week virtual placement as part of his Summer Internship Programme from the Air Navigation section within Polytechnic University of Bucharest. As part of his placement Vlad will ...
Seamless passenger experience
Irene Boñal shares her thoughts on improving accessibility to provide a seamless airport experience for all passenger types.
Think selected onto EUROCONTROL’s Innovation Labs Framework
We are delighted to have been selected as one of the organisations on EUROCONTROL's new Innovation Labs Framework. The framework will allow us to participate in EUROCONTROL's Innovation Hub projects, which are facilitated by the EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre ...
Very Shiny Web Applications
We’re big fans of Shiny here at Think. It allows us to develop data dashboards, display data visualisations and utilise data models to provide actionable insights. It works on any device and is a great tool whether you are presenting in a meeting, demonstrating ...
Think teaser for SESAR KTN workshop contribution
Preparations are well underway here at Think for next weeks’ SESAR’s Engage Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) workshop which will be taking place on the 21st June.
In advance of the workshop, which will be looking at the ‘Economic incentives for future ATM ...
