Norway’s second busiest airport with over six million passengers annually, Bergen Airport has followed in the footsteps of its Avinor sister airports, Oslo and Stavanger, by implementing BlipTrack’s queue management technology.
Designed to eliminate wait-time guesswork, the queue management solution will enable staff at Bergen to accurately measure and predict how many people are standing in line and for how long. Subsequently they can then optimise resource utilisation and improve the passenger experience.
“We want to make travelling easier for our passengers. The implementation of BlipTrack will help to ensure that passengers experience a quick and easy passage through this stage of the journey, and significantly increase the opportunity for a positive experience throughout the airport,” said Øystein Skaar, Bergen Airport’s director.
The airport recently opened a new terminal capable of handling up to 10 million passengers a year. To complement the infrastructure improvements, access to both live and empirical data insights on passenger queue and dwell times will provide airport management with the ability to monitor queue line density at security checkpoints so that they can respond promptly and effectively to irregular operations and disruptions.
In addition to benefitting airport management teams, Bergen plans to share the wait time information with its passengers to help reduce stress levels by creating realistic expectations for queue times.
Commenting on the new partnership with Bergen Airport, Preben Andersen, sales manager at BLIP Systems said: “With the new installation at Bergen Airport, BlipTrack has proven to be an effective platform to provide visibility on resource effectiveness for greater processing efficiency and improved passenger experience”.
