Digital technology has transformed various sectors with aviation not being exceptional. Digiyatra a government-promoted app enhances the traveller's experience by streamlining the operation. A blockchain-based identity management system Digiyatra uses a digital identity system which stores travelers' information on a distributed ledger. The airports and the airlines adopt the system to enhance the security of travellers, reduce the waiting queues in airports, and provide seamless travel and great experience. The chapter explores the revolutionary role of Digiyatra in air travel in India. The study uses online reviews of travellers about their experience using the app. The findings of the study state that security, experience, efficiency, and digitization are key factors for adopting digiyatra. The study's results will assist the government in understanding adopting digital technologies which can redefine the Indian aviation industry and make it future-ready
This research proposes the development of a next generation airline reservation system that incorporates the Cloud microservices, distributed artificial intelligence modules and the blockchain technology to improve on the efficiency, safety and customer satisfaction. The traditional reservation systems encounter issues related to the expansion of the systems, the integrity of the data provided and the level of service offered to the customers, which is the main focus of this architecture through the modular and data centric design approaches. This will allow different operations such as reservations, payments, and customer data management among others to be performed separately thereby facilitating high availability of the system by 30% and enhancing performance of the system by 40% on its scalability. Such systems contain AI driven modules that utilize the past booking patterns along with the profile of the customer to estimate the demand and make recommendations, which increases to 25 % of customer engagement. Moreover, blockchain is effective in engaging an incorruptible ledger system for the all transactions therefore mitigating fraud incidences and increasing the clarity by 20%. The system was subjected to analysis using a simulator and using machine learning evaluations that rated it against other conventional systems. The results show that there were clear enhancements in the speed of transactions where the rates of secure data processing rose by 35%, and the system response time by 15 %. The system can also be used for other high transaction industries like logistics and hospitality. This structural design is indicative of how the use of advanced technologies will revolutionize the airline reservation sector. The implications are growing effectiveness, improvement in security and greater customer contentment.
Abstract One of the main objectives of the European Commission (EC) since the 70s has been to coordinate research policies and to enhance the transnational cooperation in order to reach efficiency in terms of funding and to match with Europe’s economic ambitions. It has been addressed through a centralized approach managed by the EC and a decentralized approach through the cooperation of member states. Regarding the aviation sector, the centralized financing has been successfully implemented under the EU Research & Innovation Framework Programmes, while the decentralized approach has been less successful through the initiative Air Transport Net (AirTN) ERA-NET. The intention of this paper is to analyse the AirTN case study and its methodology to launch transnational calls, the results, and the reasons why it was not completely successful. Following the identification of these main barriers, we provide a list of suggestions that could have been implemented for a more successful outcome.
Blockchain is the foundational technology of various cryptocurrencies. It has features such as nontempering, decentralization, security, anonymity, etc. Its distributed ledger technology has received broad research and industry attention. Cryptography, hash functions, peer-to-peer (P2P) consensus and smart contracts are being used in a wide variety of applications across industries to solve various problems. Supply chain finance is a model in which various financial institutions connect with stakeholders in the supply chain to optimize working capital and liquidity invested in supply chain processes and transactions. The Air Cargo industry is one of the essential parts of various global supply chains. Consisting of multiple nodes, the complexity in its structure makes it difficult for credit risk analysis for the creditors. Information asymmetry leads to a lack of trust between companies and creditors. Frauds and disruptions in the Air Cargo industry make it vulnerable from the perspective of Financial Institutions. A platform for Air Cargo Financing using Blockchain (ACFB) is proposed in this study to solve these problems; this would make a supply chain more transparent, trustworthy, and efficient for all the stakeholders and financial institutions.
The recent Airlines management is facing lots of challenges and the pandemic has made it more critical. The airlines' industry needs to come up with a strong solution to uplift the airlines' sector and sophisticate the customers. In this paper, the main objective of the Airlines reservation system is to implement software using java that accompanies blockchain technology considering the airline sector challenges. It helps users to reserve tickets for air service and track the updated status periodically. Blockchain technology keeps the data secured and centralized providing efficient usage via mobile apps or online. The system provides an efficient user interface for both customers and stakeholders and analyzes the behavior of the customer and provides efficient results. This article also explains the demand price prediction and related challenges to be solved efficiently. All the above factors are considered and an efficient solution of application system using Java.
Jing Li, Zhenzhen Peng, Ao Liu, Long He · 5 authors
With the extensive application and reform of Blockchain technology in the fields of finance and supply chain, the further development of Blockchain technology has increasingly attracted great interest of air transport industry. The Blockchain technology is gradually and deeply integrated with cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging information technologies to create ecosystem-level application of emerging technologies for civil aviation. In this paper, the Blockchain technology and its relationship with other emerging technologies are combed in detail. Then, the applicability of Blockchain technology to civil aviation is briefly analyzed. Finally, the challenges and future development direction of the Blockchain technology applied in the field of civil aviation are summarized and discussed.
We propose and implement a decentralized, intelligent air traffic flow management (ATFM) solution to improve the efficiency of air transportation in the ASEAN region as a whole. Our system, named BlockAgent, leverages the inherent synergy between multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) for air traffic flow optimization; and the rising blockchain technology for a secure, transparent and decentralized coordination platform. As a result, BlockAgent does not require a centralized authority for effective ATFM operations. We have implemented several novel distributed coordination approaches for RL in BlockAgent. Empirical experiments with real air traffic data concerning regional airports have demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that considers blockchain-based, distributed RL for ATFM.
Igor Silva Bonomo, Iuri R. Barbosa, Lucas Borges Monteiro, Camila Fernanda Bassetto · 7 authors
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) including SWIM Registry for Air Traffic Management (ATM) has been successfully developed and applied in Europe and United States. The most developing countries have just started to study the employment of SWIM concept, which its establishment is required prior to the development of SWIM Registry. In this paper, we introduce the experience of the development of SWIM Registry Brazil, which comprises the study of the architecture, components, services and data accessing. In order to encourage consumers and providers to participate in the SWIM community, we developed a prototype of SWIM Registry Demonstration for the Brazilian ATM society. We propose a model based on Blockchain for managing services currently provided by Brazilian ATM in order to certificate operations which are performed by consumers, authorities and involved stakeholders. The proposed model is expected to provide services for SWIM Registry with integrity, efficiency, security and authenticity, which are fundamental for the proper operation of Brazilian aviation system.
Since the ending of the cold war, many former military airbases have been converted for civilian use. This has caused the German airport network to become very dense. Nowadays airport catchment areas are overlapping and many airport-operators depend on state aid. Some lobbyists blame the decentralized provision of infrastructure for over-capacities and loss-making airport-operators. However, this paper shows that a shift of competences from the local to the federal level would breach the principles of public finance. Most essential is an imperative combination of provision and financing competences in order to avoid misleading incentives for local decision makers.