One of the prevalent challenges facing airports today is delivering cost-effective, high-quality services to passengers with reduced mobility.
- The future of personal mobility within airports is embodied by autonomous wheelchair services, offering passengers with mobility challenges the freedom to navigate the airport independently.
- The autonomous service efficiently conveys passengers to their departure gates with minimal effort through simple button presses, ensuring safety and reliability. It also includes stops at designated locations such as restrooms, shops, and restaurants for added convenience.
After reaching the designated gate, the user disembarks from the chair, and the device autonomously returns to its home station.
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One of the prevalent challenges facing airports today is delivering cost-effective, high-quality services to passengers with reduced mobility!
These travelers are the fastest growing demographic in the airline industry. And many airports are struggling to meet the additional demands that come with accommodating their needs. This includes more wheelchair pushes, longer wait times and an increased number of Staff injuries. These issues are further compounded by rising operating costs and tight labor markets. Additionally, many passengers with reduced mobility, find existing wheelchair Push Services to be unsatisfactory and desire more independence when navigating the airport.
Thankfully, there is solution that addresses all these issues introducing the future of in-airport personal mobility is the Autonomous Wheelchair Service.
This service relieves airlines of wheelchair push requirements and which helps passengers with mobility issues, explore the airport with greater freedom.
The autonomous service transports passengers to their gate with just a few simple button presses.
The users select their destination on a touch screen and then hit start. The chair does everything else!
The autonomous service efficiently conveys passengers to their departure gates, ensuring safety and reliability.
Passengers can make additional stops at designated locations such as restrooms, shops, and restaurants.
After reaching the designated gate, the user disembarks from the chair, and the device autonomously returns to its home stations.
Devices can also be dispatched to pick up passengers at arrival Gates or transport passengers from gate to gate during layovers.
The service is fully safe and reliable, thanks to the intelligent power chairs ability to independently detect and avoid obstacles in the airport using Multi-Sensor Fusion and automatic brakes.
The Great Advantages:
This autonomous service provides several advantages:
First and foremost, it is Cost-Effective and provides up to50 savings when compared to a traditional Push Service.
Additionally, because it doesn’t require a staff member to push the chair, the service helps reduce injuries and workers compensation.
The device can also continuously run throughout the day without the need for a break!
The autonomous service is flexible and can be customized to meet the specific needs and passenger volumes at your airport. And it seamlessly integrates with your existing push team.
To Summarize:
The Intelligent Airport Personal Mobility, offers four key benefits:
- Passenger Experience: It improves passenger experience by providing greater freedom and reducing wait times.
- Safety: It offers increased safety thanks to the Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance technology.
- Cost Savings: It provides significant cost savings to both the airport and airline.
- Reduces Injuries: It reduces injuries to staff members since no longer need to push the chair manually.
Are you interested in incorporating this technology at your airport?
We can transform your Mobility Offering from traditional push service to an innovative Fleet of Autonomous Power chairs…