Egis

Speaker Biograghy: Before joining the aviation industry, Jean-Luc spent over 15 years applying operational research techniques and developing information system masterplanning in manufacturing, logistics and supply chains. He joined Brussels Airport in 1998 as ICT Designer on fourth-generation AODB, and developed the airport's CDM development until 2002. He then joined Egis to assist French R&D centre CENA (Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aérienne) as DSNA Deputy Representative on the European Gate to Gate project between 2002 and 2007. Then he was appointed Head of the Concepts and Strategies skills unit. Since 2010 he has been the Aviation Sustainable Development Director and provides optimisation and modelling expertise for all major Egis airports and terminal projects. He closely works with Egis's airport architects and engineers in order to minimise the impact of the new airport buildings on the environment. Personal interests: His other passions are scuba diving and martial arts.


Day 1 - 25 March
Session: Energy, Environmental Issues & Sustainability

10:10 - 10:40 - Terminal performance assessment through neural network techniques
Synopsis: The hype is on sustainable performance, including social, economic and environmental issues, through financial and non-financial indicators. The aviation sector has provided the Global Reporting Initiative with specific indicators for its industry, but can airport operators measure the overall performance of a terminal as single holistic figure? Can the same approach be used on 'similar' terminals given all external factors that influence performance? Egis, with its worldwide experience in airport engineering and design, explored usage of neural networks techniques, which provides encouraging answers to these questions, using available data collected on public sources.

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