3D visualization for the monitoring and control of airport operations

Abstract In order to support the planning, monitoring and control of space–time critical processes, such as factory logistics or airport resource allocation, the IT system needs a user interface, which provides a good overview about the planned process, and it's actual state. Traditional systems use 2D graphics like Gantt charts and event networks, which show the duty and action sequences very well but not the spatial relationship on the airport. The idea to overcome this problem is to combine 2D with 3D visualization. We analyzed the requirements of such a visualization based on the application example of airport resource management and developed a demonstration prototype. This paper gives a short description of our preliminary results.