WIN1205-14 Airport Gate Scheduling Prototype

We Highfliers as a team have developed a webpage or a website that would basically ease the whole of Gate allocation method which is being conducted manually at the airport right now and the webpage we have developed would basically do the gate allocation dynamically and also would prevent the risk of collision of the flights due to the manual gate allocation. Further, we have also developed a feature where we could also add the delay time for each flight which has  some technical issues and gates to the further flights would be allocated accordingly so there would be no risk of collision at all.

There are lots of challenges faced by the team during whole completion of the project and below are some of them with their  solutions.

• Initially , when we started with the project we had to learn some new programming languages and also implement it according to the requirements but as we eventually moved forward we realized that the concept we were trying to implement was not in a right path so, we decided to change the whole programming structure. So, this was a big challenge for the team since we had already developed some part of the project and had to change it overall and start from scratch.
• Secondly, the challenge faced was the time management issue since we needed to constantly co-ordinate with the sponsor for the requirements and mentor too. But we managed it and were able to successfully complete the project.
• There were certain other challenges such we also had to migrate the whole database to a code format since it was a requirement put up by the sponsor at the mid-way of the project.
• we also had a challenge of developing a responsive dashboard which also would be cross platform for all the browsers and systems.

• We as a team have successfully designed and tested the Airport gate Scheduling prototype which is basically a webpage which uses the dynamic algorithm to allocate the flights to the specific gates and allaso takes care off the delay time of the flight and the further upcoming flights so that there is no scope of collision. The webpage we have developed is only the prototype for the time being but is already loaded with a lot of features such as Access management of each and every employee also logs creation of all the activities , so basically it is a full flesh running project for the small-scale airports.
• Following are some salient features  we have developed:

1.  Employee Management
2.  Schedule  Management
3.  Delay Management
4. Access  Management
5. Role Management
6. Gate Allocation Management.

The lessons learned by our team as well as each of the individual is the project management part since we have worked on the various documents for our project to be successfully implemented and also secondly the time management and the communication skills , since the team had to constantly co-ordinate with the sponsor and the mentor for the updates on the project. Further , we successfully learned various backend concepts such as login and sign -up page designing , database creation in the MySQL and the migration of the database . We also implemented the concepts of developing the dynamic algorithm which is the key feature of our sponsor’s requirements. Basically, if we put everything together in a nutshell the team has learned a lot programming concepts , designing of various things and pages also implementing various scripts and the database tables which would definitely  help each one of us in our near future.