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Aviation Community Recommended Information Services: One community, one data exchange standard
Journal of Airport Management,
11
(2),
168-179
(2017)
Abstract
The aviation industry is growing fast and will need more business interoperability to manage the challenge of growth efficiently over the coming years. This paper shows how the Airports Council International (ACI) World working group, Aviation Community Recommended Information Services (ACRIS), supports the need for more business interoperability by defining standardised information services and their representations as WebServices1 using state-of-the-art world wide web technologies. The ACRIS WebServices already support various business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) scenarios all over the aviation industry, such as self-service bag drop off and self-boarding processes, Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) implementations and airports’ mobile passenger app strategies. In the next steps the ACI ACRIS Working Group will facilitate a digital transformation of the airport business by supporting open data and open API (Application Programming Interface) strategies through an ‘ACRIS API Shop’.
Keywords: information services; interoperability; standards; WebServices; SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol); XML (eXtensible Markup Language); REST (Representational State Transfer); semantic model; open data; open API (Application Programming Interface)
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Author's Biography
Albert Van Veen is Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Schiphol Group. Schiphol Group operates airports and is active on both a national and international scale. At Schiphol he leads the IT department and the Digital Transformation Program to become the best digital airport in the word. Albert joined Schiphol two years ago after working eight years as a CIO for ING Groep N.V. Within ING he was CIO Separation and delivered the Initial Public Offering (IPO) for ING insurance (NN). He started with ING as CIO for the Real Estate Division. Before working for ING, he worked as the manager of IT Audit team for TNT. Albert became a master of arts at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and a master of science at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He represents Schiphol at the Airports Council International (ACI) World Airport IT Standing Committee and is the Chairman of the Aviation Community Recommended Information Services (ACRIS) Working Group.
Rolf Felkel is Senior Vice President Application Development and deputy CIO at Fraport AG. Dr Felkel is in charge of the development and maintenance of all IT applications at Frankfurt Main Airport. He represents Fraport AG on the ACI World Airport IT Standing Committee and is the Vice-Chairman of the Aviation Community Recommended Information Services (ACRIS) Working Group. He joined Fraport’s ICT department in 2000 as a system planner for the Flight Information Display System at Frankfurt Airport. In the following year, Dr Felkel worked as an ICT project manager, set up a group of in-house ICT consultants and was responsible for Landside IT solutions. Before working with Fraport, Dr Felkel completed studies of mathematics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 1995. He then completed his PhD at the end of 1999. This granted him the title of Dr rer. nat. in the field of numerical non-linear optimisation.
