Aviation logistics mainly refers to the movement of people and goods through air transport. Globally air transport is considered to be one of the fastest and most reliable means of transport whereby, the ability to move valuable goods to far places around the world helps in improving the quality and standard of life across the globe. It is considered important in providing job opportunities to many individuals as well as generation of revenue to a nation since there is the activity of buying and selling of goods, maintaining of inventories, storage of goods in the warehouse and finally delivery and distribution of goods. (Future Flight, 2020)
Some of the main problems witnessed in air transport include a high level of terrorism and cyber-attacks, high fuel cost, long queues especially during the high travel season, interference from bad weather, the relationship between one country and the other in terms of politics, high cost of transportation of low value and bulky goods.
However, experts are spending most of their time trying to come up with new innovative technological measures which improve the efficiency and reliability of aviation logistics. One of the technological methods currently used is beacon technology. This system is of high importance to airports and airport vendors since it makes it possible to share personal information as well as keeping a track of their current location. Our airports need to deploy the screening technology by making use of X-rays so that passengers and their luggage can be screened and images were taken as they walk through. This makes it safe for the traveling passenger.
Long queues in the airport create anxiety and stress as passengers try to access information. Queue monitoring solutions is one of the best decision for a long-term trend more so when the setups are irregular. This technology can scan, process, and generate data which is afterward sent to digital signage and mobile applications, the same is also used to observe lines and also in detecting unusual behaviors (“Airport Tips: How to Avoid the Long Queues – Travelphant Travel Blog”, 2020)
Weather technology in the cockpit (WTIC) is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) database that provides weather service approval for the cockpit, regulatory documents, materials required for the preparation purpose, and practical transfers. The program observes weather statistics, its performance and incorporation, what information is omitted and unsatisfactory. It provides opposing weather forecasts which help the pilot in decision making when bumping into harsh weather. (“Bloomberg – Are you a robot?” 2020)
Frequently, there is the introduction of new aircraft with efficient designs of the engines with an aim of regulating the consumption of fuel by the aircrafts; this is because fuel has a huge effect in air transport. “Fuel tinkering” is one of the methods currently being adopted which involve carrying more than the needed amount of fuel reasons being the situation is worse in those countries with a fragile currency keeping in mind the product is exchanged in dollars. (“Fuel Price Effects on Logistics | Impact of Oil Prices on Freight Shipping Cost | Third Party Logistics Company | Nationwide Supply Chain Management | Direct Drive Logistics Worldwide Freight Brokerage”, 2020)
Having a good political relationship between one country and another is good thing more so in the field of aviation, this is because nations come together and generate a system that detect and prevent fraudulent activity more so with matters to do with lawbreakers when running to a neighboring country for safety. These nations share personal and sensitive information about a specific customer.
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