On June 27th, the first plane slowly set sail from Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, marking the official operation of Tianfu International Airport and ushering in its shining moment of "divine bird spreading its wings"! Chengdu will become another city with two international hub airports after Shanghai and Beijing, entering the "one city, two airports" tier. At present, multiple airlines such as Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and Sichuan Airlines have released the first batch of operational route plans for the transition to Tianfu Airport.
At the beginning of the design and planning of Tianfu International Airport, Brilliant simultaneously established a digital twin airport platform. The digital twin airport platform plays a crucial role in the planning, design, construction, operation management, and maintenance of the airport, realizing the digitization of airport construction and operation and improving airport management efficiency.

Aerial shot of Tianfu Airport and digital twin Tianfu Airport platform top view

Tianfu Airport Terminal Real Photo and Digital Twin Tianfu Airport Platform Terminal

As a leader in the construction of smart airport platforms, Boneng Co., Ltd. has undertaken the digital twin airport platform of Tianfu International Airport. In addition, it has also undertaken more than ten business system platforms, including geographic information systems, unified location service platforms, airside inspection and maintenance management systems, clearance management systems, apron intelligent scheduling systems, emergency rescue management systems, security intelligent integration platforms, operation and maintenance control systems, indoor positioning systems, asset visualization systems, etc.
Based on BIM models and various technologies such as GIS and video, the digital twin airport platform of Brilliant  achieves the transformation from 2D data to 3D data, realizing comprehensive modeling of airport air, ground, and underground, as well as various spatial expressions of airport equipment and facilities. It combines diverse point data and analysis data to achieve the mapping between the physical world and the digital world of the airport. At the same time, it is supplemented by 3D rendering technology to dynamically display airport information, presenting key information at different levels such as airport operation indicators, operation support processes, and overall operation situation in the form of graphics and images. It adheres to data-driven airport operation decision-making, thereby improving airport management and service level, and helping Tianfu International Airport achieve the goal of building a "world-class and domestically leading" smart airport.

Digital Twin Tianfu Airport Platform

The Geographic Information System (GIS) is based on the airport geographic information database and aims to provide spatial location application services. It provides spatial location service standard specifications (including engineering content management standard specifications, geographic information system standard specifications, etc.) for Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, and also provides unified and standardized geographic coordinate information, map services, and map data for the airport's production and management information systems.

The clearance management system adopts a three-dimensional modeling method, with a digital terrain model as the core, to create a virtual airport clearance restriction surface model. The built model is accurately positioned in the three-dimensional scene to support airport management personnel in managing airport clearance in a visual way.

The intelligent dispatching system at the apron is responsible for managing all vehicles entering the airport's flight area, including guidance vehicles, shuttle buses, refueling vehicles, catering vehicles, sewage vehicles, water vehicles, etc. While achieving unified planning and management of the driving areas and routes for all incoming vehicles, it will also enable scheduling for certain types of vehicles. Standardize the management of vehicles entering the airport and ensure the safety of airport operations.

The emergency rescue management system provides information technology support for airport emergency rescue command work, and achieves timely, accurate, and efficient handling of sudden emergency events through application functions such as daily emergency rescue management. And provide emergency command coordination, departmental emergency response, emergency simulation exercises and other functions to guide various units to complete emergency response tasks. The system also provides the function of handling large-scale flight delays, which serves as support for various units to complete the task of handling large-scale flight delays at the airport.

In recent years, the civil aviation department has been advocating the concept and construction practice of "four types of airports" in airport construction. This concept has been fully integrated into the construction of Tianfu Airport, with "safety, green, smart, and humanistic" as the core, relying on technological progress, reform and innovation, and collaborative sharing. Through the whole process, all elements, and all-round optimization, it has achieved strong safety operation guarantee. The digital twin airport platform constructed by Brilliant  Co., Ltd. fully embodies the construction concept of four types of airports, comprehensively perceives the operational data of the airport system, deeply explores the value of data, realizes the interconnection, intercommunication, and sharing of information and data throughout the field, and creates the "strongest brain" for the operation of Tianfu Airport. While providing users with the ultimate experience, we strive to build Tianfu International Airport into a new peak of China's "smart airport".