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.
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Terminal Modelling With ArcPORT
There are several processes within an airport terminal that are key for an airport’s efficiency and profitability. A minimal change in the terminal layout or process efficiency can rapidly impact other areas. When it comes to making changes or improvements in ...
Fast Time Simulation With AirTOP
Understanding every aspect of current and potential operations is vital for stakeholders to deliver improved safety, efficiency and reliability in future planning. There are many different challenges that airports, ANSPs and airlines ...
Real Time Simulations
When it comes to Real-Time Simulation, Think’s experience is unrivalled among ATM and Airport consultancies. We have conducted over 150 RTS all over the world on a wide range of RTS platforms. These have included dozens of SESAR RTS for a variety of European ...
THINK LEAD RECORD NUMBER OF SIMS IN 5 MONTHS!
Think has been leading Real Time Simulation (RTS) Validation Activities all around the world since its foundation in 2004. These range from simulations to develop early maturity SESAR concepts to the very large scale demonstrations addressing Free Route ...
RAPID
RAPID is our own bespoke modelling tool for airports and airspace capacity optimisation. It is a new approach to airfield capacity optimisation that allows us to provide fast insights to clients looking to implement ATM improvements and to prepare for the ...
Think conclude set of IA Development Simulations for Schiphol
Last month saw the conclusion of four development simulations for the implementation of Intelligent Approach (IA) at Schiphol airport, which were co-ordinated by Think with support from NATS IA air traffic controller (ATCo) lead. Think’s involvement in the ...
Assessing Airspace Environmental Aspects
Airspace change proposals vary significantly in terms of complexity, size and environmental impact – they could be simple, straightforward and with limited environmental and operational effect (e.g. route replication), or they could be complex changes with ...
HOW DO I CHOOSE THE RIGHT VALIDATION TECHNIQUE?
It can be a minefield selecting the right validation technique your concept in question. In order to develop a concept iteratively, different validation techniques can be used. Typically, the needs of the project reside on two main questions:What maturity ...
TOP 10 TIPS FOR PLANNING A REAL TIME SIMULATION
Since joining Think 10 years ago, I have led a huge number of RTS all over the world for various clients on a variety of concepts at differing stages of maturity. From developing air traffic controller tools in the UK, to assessing new airspace routes and ...
Hydrogen Powered Aircraft – A saviour or a step too far?
Our previous blogs have covered aviation emissions in the past and future years. We now turn towards one of the high-profile candidates for minimising aviation’s impact on climate – Hydrogen Powered Aircraft, where hydrogen is used as a fuel instead of kerosene. ...
NOISE ACTION PLANS
Airports around the world commonly produce noise action plans, either in response to direct regulatory requirements such as the EU environmental noise directive, or else to demonstrate to local communities how they proactively seek to manage the noise from ...
Noise & Emissions Modelling
We conduct airport noise and emissions modelling using industry standard toolsets, but with an innovative mindset. Our analytics capability underpins our approach to noise and emissions modelling, and we are comfortable working with large datasets and ...
Aviation emissions, the path to 2050 and a hint of optimism
Photo by Mladen Borisov on Unsplash
I've expended quite a few words recently on our need as an industry to honestly own our emissions problem and to take the COVID pause as an opportunity to rethink our ambitions of unfettered growth. (TL;DR: We need something ...
WebTAG NOISE AND EMISSIONS
At Think we understand the needs of the UK CAP1616 airspace change process particularly when it comes to quantification of the economic impacts of airspace changes. In particular, clients often struggle with the WebTAG compliant quantification of an ...
FUTURE PBN TMAS WILL NEED ADVANCED FLOW MANAGEMENT
In my previous blog article, I presented a new focus for advanced approach concepts - harnessing their environmental benefits in a future very high density PBN approach airspace. In this blog, I continue with the next step in this idea - the means of getting the ...
Introducing…Word of the Weeks
And now for something different… Step inside the mind of one of our biggest brains at Think as Principal Consultant Peter Weeks brings you his own unique insight into the future of ATM concepts.
Paul Ravenhill Moderating Standards Evolution Workshop
Tomorrow at 10:00am marks the start of the virtual Standards Evolution Workshop which is being organised by EUROCONTROL in partnership with the European Commission and the EASA.The workshop aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss how standards can ...
Think Attends Annual AirTOp and ArcPORT User Groups
November is an exciting month for our Fast Time Simulation (FTS) team. Our AirTOp expert, Elizabet Pavlova, and our ArcPORT expert, Irene Boñal Bravo, will both be attending the online User Group Conferences organised by Transoft Solutions. During the events, ...
MODE SWITCHING IN DIGITAL TOWER TRANSITION
When the market talks Digital Towers, it usually focuses on operational benefits or technological advancements, and not so much on the human performance and human factors. Yet we at Think have long acknowledged that this is a significant aspect of the concept, ...
Think supporting EUROCONTROL in SESAR 2020 Wave 2
We are pleased to have been awarded our first contract within the second wave of SESAR 2020. Our consultants have begun providing comprehensive support to EUROCONTROL for the duration of the PJ.02-W2-14 solution. The ‘Evolution Of Separation Minima For ...
COVID protocols -still necessary, still possible
Back in May we did some analysis on the COVID-related measures likely to be put in place during air travel. We modelled some recovery scenarios across the terminal and the gate as traffic started to pick up following “lockdown” across Europe. Now that 6 months have passed and we have a clearer picture of what form the recovery is taking, we’ve taken a look back at our modelling to see if the analysis still holds.
Challenging The 80/20 Fallacy of ATCO Workload
As Human Factors has grown as a discipline within the ATM industry, controller workload has slowly gained appreciation by decision makers as a key performance indicator (KPIs) and is now a standard marker of operational feasibility across development projects – and
Human Factors and Controller Performance
Think’s Human Factors approach delivers real safety benefits, increased efficiency and reduced costs through improved Human Performance. We use Human Centred Design principles, tools and methodologies to integrate Human Factors in the project life-cycle, ...
Role of markets in AAS deployment
Find out more about our work on 'project RoMiAD' which is a catalyst project awarded by the Engage KTN the SESAR Knowledge Transfer Network.
A step towards sustainable mobility in Europe
From the 16th to the 22nd of September many politicians, companies and individuals celebrated this year’s European Mobility Week, ironically, in a year where mobility has been reduced to unprecedented levels. As a result, this year we are more aligned than we ...
THINK SHOWCASING ROMIAD AT ENGAGE SUMMER SCHOOL
We are ready for school! This week is the second summer school organised by the Engage KTN the SESAR Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), rather than the usual physical event, this year will be a virtually run event in the Autumn. It is set to be a great gathering
Do We Need To Regulate Virtualisation?
The Airspace Architecture Study (AAS) provides a blueprint for removing structural inefficiencies in Europe through a process of virtualisation. However, the AAS does not consider how this process could be incentivised through economic regulation. Whilst the SES ...
Got a SESAR 2020 project? Here are my top tips
In 2004, just as Think was starting, something else was born – the Single European Sky ATM Research Programme (SESAR). A few years later, in 2008, the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) was set up to manage the research and develop phases of the project. In the ...
INTEGRATING COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT INTO ATM
Spaceflight is booming. Virgin Galactic and SpaceX have become household names in recent years with their impressive feats of engineering. Virgin Galactic are set to take tourists to the edges of space and SpaceX want to take us to Mars! All of this though is ...
Update to Think’s Remote Tower Map
Back in June we updated our website to include a Remote and Digital Towers resources page, this included Think’s first-of-its-kind map of Digital Tower projects which uses a unique dataset to help to visualise the current landscape of this concept. Despite it ...
