The Book-a-Slot book­ing ser­vice takes you quickly through the se­cu­rity check. To­gether with our part­ner iab­sis, a Swiss-based in­no­va­tion dri­ver, Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a new prod­uct for air­ports. The con­cept and idea for this ser­vice were de­vel­oped dur­ing a hackathon at which the team won the first prize in the “Life be­fore the Air­port” chal­lenge.

The ser­vice had its first test run from 12th No­vem­ber till 20th De­cem­ber and was avail­able for 1500 flights in Eu­rope.

With around 9.5m PAX a year and 400 take­offs and land­ings a day to over 100 des­ti­na­tions, Stuttgart Air­port is one of the busiest air­ports in Ger­many. The goal is to op­ti­mise the pas­sen­ger traf­fic rout­ing in the four ter­mi­nals in or­der to al­low pas­sen­gers to reach their gate quickly and safely. The ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem was al­ready made more dy­namic in the last few years, yet it was still worth ex­am­in­ing where it was pos­si­ble to im­prove the in­for­ma­tion de­sign. Af­ter a more de­tailed analy­sis of the air­port, Moni­teurs ad­vised the Ter­mi­nal Man­age­ment and the com­pany man­age­ment with re­gard to in­for­ma­tion ar­chi­tec­ture, nam­ing sys­tems, graph­ics and ana­logue and dig­i­tal ori­en­ta­tion sig­nage. A flex­i­ble rout­ing sys­tem to the se­cu­rity checks, in con­sid­er­a­tion of pas­sen­ger ca­pac­ity, was one of the main cri­te­ria. The first mod­ules have al­ready been im­ple­mented.

In the build­ings Ter­mi­nal 1, Fo­rum of the Mu­nich Air­port Cen­ter (MAC) and Cen­tral Build­ing, the sig­nage is no longer uni­form and the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem has grown his­tor­i­cally over the years. Tech­ni­cal re­quire­ments and pas­sen­ger ex­pec­ta­tions have in­creas­ingly changed.

Schöne­feld Air­port has been in ex­is­tence since 1936, has been a civil­ian air­port since the 1950s, and has writ­ten his­tory with its very ence. And Schöne­feld will re­main in op­er­a­tion for at least five years af­ter the open­ing of the new Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port. Ever more pas­sen­gers de­part from and ar­rive here, and it has just been en­larged to ac­com­mo­date 12 mil­lion pas­sen­gers a year. Moni­teurs has been com­mis­sioned to ex­tend the BER ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem to Schöne­feld Air­port.