Smart Airport App

We are going to make an app that can be used by people traveling through or from ORD airport (Chicago), which will provide live time update for security check line (in terms of time), change of gate for the flight and whether or not the flight is on time. The reason for developing this application is to simplify and improve the passenger’s overall airport experience in order to make it more enjoyable, informative, and time efficient while decreasing the current negative mentality towards traveling. Resources needed to create the prototype would include softwares that help in creating wireframes of the applications like Balsamiq and app developing softwares like Android studio and Xcode. The anticipated beneficiaries of this project would be the consumers that are being provided a smoother airport experience, as well as the airport operators who will be able to provide a better service to the customers with the data collected. An expected result of this app is that fewer passengers will miss their flights; by focusing on waiting times, flight schedules, flight locations, and other airport operations, it can be assumed that users of this app will have more control in the travel process and therefore will make educated decisions based on real time data to make their flight on time. The constraints for this app will be that it is only available on Android-OS compatible phones. Only O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois will be functional at the time of app release while the team learns about the learning capabilities of the ap

The Smart Airport App, Transit.io: The Travel Optimizer

Jacqueline Andrews, Devin Burke, Uvika Chaturvedi, Jake Collins, Pranav Gupta, Vikrant Neb, Harsh Somani, and Alyssa Williams were all seniors in industrial engineering in the spring semester of 2016. They were members of Team 3 in the course titled Human Factors and Work Analysis (IE 486). This course explores the application of engineering, computer sciences, information sciences, and psychological principles and methods to the analysis and design of human work systems. In this article, the students describe their development of an application prototype to improve the airport travel experience