An aircraft ground support unit, which is mobile, for supplying a service to an aircraft on the ground according to a specific servicing program is provided that includes a GPS to identify an instantaneous position of the ground support unit, a receiver suitable for identifying an aircraft by receiving information emitted by a transponder of said aircraft including one or more of: an instantaneous GPS coordinates of an aircraft position, an identity of the aircraft, a type of aircraft, a company of the aircraft, or aircraft status data, and a microprocessor configured for calculating a distance, d, of the aircraft from the ground support unit, selecting a predefined specific servicing program stored in a database corresponding to the type and company of the thus identified aircraft, controlling the ground support unit to implement the thus selected specific servicing program, and logging aircraft and ground unit data for airlines optimization.

A luggage conveyor device for efficiently supplying a plurality of inspection objects to be inspected or individual items in general to an inspection device (4) is provided. The conveyor device (1, 2, 3) is particularly efficiently designed such that an inspection object inspection is carried out quickly and smoothly. A correspondingly designed method for operating the conveyor device (1, 2, 3), and to a computer program product including control commands for implementing the method or operating the conveyor device (1, 2, 3) are also provided.

An information processing device includes an association information acquiring unit, a first position information acquiring unit, and an output control unit. The association information acquiring unit acquires association information in which first identification information used for identifying baggage and second identification information used for identifying an owner of baggage identified by the first identification information are associated with each other. The first position information acquiring unit acquires position information of target baggage that is baggage identified by the first identification information included in the association information. The output control unit causes a mobile terminal held by a target owner who is an owner of the baggage identified by the second identification information associated with the first identification information relating to the target baggage in the association information to output information based on the position information of the target baggage.

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided method of preparing a plurality of items for air transport, in which method a plurality of items is consolidated into a bundle which has a shape corresponding to the contour or part of the contour of a unit load device. The bundle is loaded into the unit load device so as to populate the volume or part of the volume of the unit load device.

A mechanical sweeping mechanism removably affixed to existing ground service equipment (GSE) for the collection and removal of foreign object debris (FOD) in a removable hopper. Movement of a GSE vehicle rotates the independently suspended drive wheels, transmitted by gears/pulleys and chain/belts to power a cylindrical bristle, spinning in the opposite direction of travel, to collect and funnel FOD via a ramp into a removable hopper. Bristle height is adjustable. At least one magnet and skid plate remove metallic FOD.

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided method of preparing a plurality of items for air transport, in which method a plurality of items is consolidated into a bundle which has a shape corresponding to the contour or part of the contour of a unit load device. The bundle is loaded into the unit load device so as to populate the volume or part of the volume of the unit load device.

A bag handling system for a mass transit environment is disclosed. The bag handling system includes a first set of autonomous automated guided vehicles and a second set of autonomous automated guided vehicles. The first and second sets of autonomous automated guided vehicles are configured to transport bags through one or more bag processing areas.

Described herein are systems and methods for baggage or parcel handling. The system includes an automated bag unloading cell, a container roller deck positioned in the automated unloading cell. The container roller deck includes a roller deck base and a deck frame. The deck frame can selectively support and transfer a container housing a bag or parcel. The deck frame can selectively rotate about a deck frame axis of rotation relative to the roller deck base. The deck frame is operable to selectively release the bag or parcel from the container. The container roller deck can also include an index table in communication with the deck frame. The index table can be operable to receive the bag or parcel released from the container. The index table can include at least one index table conveyor operable to selectively advance the bag or parcel from the index table to a first transfer device.

The delivery object reception device includes, at a building 4, a first plate-shaped member 7 provided so as to be turnable between a first position P1 and a second position P2, a first turning unit 13 configured to perform the turning, a second plate-shaped member 8 provided so as to be turnable between a third position P3 and a fourth position P4, a second turning unit 14 configured to perform the turning, third to sixth plate-shaped members 9 to 12 provided so as to be drivable between formation positions for forming a storage space 18 and non-formation positions, a plate member drive unit 15 configured to perform the driving, and a delivery object transfer unit 16 configured to transfer a delivery object 3 placed on the first plate-shaped member 7 located at the second position P2, onto the second plate-shaped member 8 located at the fourth position P4.

A baggage handling system includes a multi-tiered carousel system, an input conveyor system, an output conveyor system and a control system. Each tier of the multi-tiered carousel system includes an array of addressable storage cells movable along a loop having a charge point and a discharge point. Each storage cell is configured to store a single baggage item. The input conveyor system transfers baggage items selectively to the addressable storage cells of the multiple tiers at the respective charge points, for storage therein. The output conveyor system retrieves baggage items selectively from the addressable storage cells of the multiple tiers at the respective discharge points and conveys the retrieved baggage items in a queue. The storage and retrieval of baggage items is controlled by the control system such that the retrieved baggage items are queued to conform to a determined sequence.