✅ As a webapp, it requires no installation, is updated automatically and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Accurate forecasts form THE basis for future infrastructure requirements and inherent investments.
In order to validate and optimise the respective future infrastructure, traffic forecasts (in terms of MAP/PHP) need to be converted into a flight schedule with plausible future (additional) flights - the DDFS.
The aforementioned DDFS serve as the #1 input for relevant simulation studies, allowing to test, validate and optimise future airport layouts during the planning phase, when changes are still inexpensive.
Traffic forecasts (in terms of MAP/PHP) need to be converted into a flight schedule with plausible future (additional) flights - the DDFS. The software solves this easily and realises:
1. Considerable Time and Money Savings
Intuitive and fast software, reducing the manual labour of previously 1+ week into minutes
2. Enhanced Accuracy for Simulation Studies
No more compromise with 1 single schedule which should (impossibly) cover all peaks:
As clearly apparent from the schematic, it is impossible to fit representative departure, arrival and 2-way peaks in a single day. Each peak requires a dedicated DDFS for max accuracy.
With DDFS Generator, the simulated infrastructure areas (such as landside, avsec checkpoints, airside-international-arrivals-area, ATM airside, etc) can be simulated with a dedicated individual DDFS.
3. Supports the Forecasting Specialist
A. The forecasting specialist is recognised as the expert in charge of the annual (MAP) and peak hour (PHP) figures (no black box), while the tool on the other hand takes over the labour-intensive part of DDFS creation.
✅ PHP:MAP ratio
✅ Rolling peak hours
✅ Peak rankings (1-50th peaks - cleaned)
✅ Peak characteristics (frequency of weekday, month, time of day of top 50 peaks)
✅ Pax per ATM
✅ Aircraft analyses (body type, ICAO codes, etc)
✅ Airline analyses (alliances, type of airlines, etc)
✅ Network maps
DDFS Generator is a webapp* hence it runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
It adds sensible flights based on extensive airport + airline datasets and statistics algorithms:
✅ Airport, airline and alliance profiles
✅ Flight times and timezones
✅ Typical time of day for flights between regions
✅ Airport operating hours for normal ops as well as those airports featuring 'night ops'
✅ Aircraft rotations including registrations instead of single unlinked flights
✅ On- and offpeak increases and ratios ('peak flattening')
✅ Peak and off-peak narrowbody and widebody developments
✅ Airline fleets and orders
✅ Aircraft performance and RWY characteristics
✅ Slot regulations
✅ PHP:MAP ratios
✅ Load factor increases
✅ Aircraft upgauging
✅ Replacement of previous generation aircraft
✅ Flight frequency increases (considering summer vs winter season)
✅ Most relevant airport per city (e.g. no British Airways to SHA if already flying to PVG in Shanghai)
✅ Seasonal destinations
✅ Ocean crossing time-schemes (north atlantic, pacific, etc)
* (Hosted on servers in Germany, European Union)
* (Optimised for Chrome or Edge browsers - limited support for Firefox)
The tool is aimed at supporting forecasting and simulation specialists. This applies to both airport operators as well as consultants.
Any airport where simulation studies are relevant to ascertain capacity, Level of Service (LoS) or as part of masterplans, can greatly benefit of accurate DDFS.
This is a brief overview showing the creation of a DDFS, featuring:
✅ Airport 'maturity cycle' peak and off-peak developments
✅ 'Organic growth' through load factor increases, aircraft upgauging and airline fleet developments + modernisation
✅ The addition of flights through frequency increases, future (new) airlines + new flights
All by using DDFS Generator.
✅ 1. Traffic analysis and representative peakday selection as a basis for the future DDFS:
✅ 2. Identification of potential future flights matching the airport and airline profiles:
✅ 3. Creation of DDFS with peak and offpeak developments through new flights, frequency increases and 'organic growth':
✅ 4. Resulting DDFS can be exported and applied in fast-time simulation studies:
This tool is freeware. No pricing applies for basic usage.
This includes:
✅ Usage of DDFS Generator tool (within reasonable limits)
✅ Forecasting and DDFS guidance documentation
✅ Tool updates/improvements
This excludes:
✅ Airport towerlogs requests
✅ Basic training
✅ Yearly feedback session / feature requests
✅ Forecasting and DDFS subject matter expert support
