Web Based Flight Journals, Billing and Forecasting Management System: The Case of Ethiopia
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2014-01
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The availability of precise and exact flight data is crucial to effectively manage aircraft
operator’s billing, air transport business operations and also to ensure flight safety. This project
work has aimed to design and implement systems that can efficiently manage flight journals,
aircraft operators invoicing, and produce traffic Statistics and Forecasting for Ethiopian air
transport industry.
System requirements have been rigorously collected from Ethiopian Civil Aviation and
Ethiopian Airports Enterprises. Review of literatures and related works which are used in the
transport industry are also conducted. The design and implementation of the system is done in
accordance to the identified functional and non functional requirements. Object oriented software
engineering and ASP.NET 2.0 platform is employed to develop the system. The system is
designed in such a way to be accessible via the Internet. Users have access based on their
privilege level. The system has different subsystems to meet its core functionalities. The Flight
plan subsystem imports planned flights from Flight Plan database to the main database so as to
enable Air Traffic controllers to produce actual flight journals. The Flight Journal Management
subsystem manages registration and preparation of different flight journals. The Billing
Management subsystem is in charge of processing different aircraft operator’s charges. This
subsystem also manages different invoice operations including sending the specified invoice to
the customer via email. The System Utility Management subsystem manages user account
management tasks and sets up different system parameters used by the system. The Statistics and
Report subsystem generates different statistics and standard reports whereas the Forecasting
subsystem enables users to generate aircraft movement traffic forecasting using the designed
forecasting model.
The system has been tested with seven years actual data and it has been observed that the system
successfully meets the entire requirement identified. In addition, we evaluated our system
through a questionnaire which is prepared by considering the ISO 9241-11 usability test standard
attributes. The results of the evaluation have shown that our system is easy to use, efficient,
effective, accurate, and can save time of professionals.
Keywords: Flight Journal Management, Flight Journal and Billing Management System, Airport
Revenue Management, Flight Journal Statistics and Forecasting System, Aircraft Operators
Invoicing System, Aircraft Movement Statistics and Forecasting.
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Flight Journal Management; Flight Journal and Billing Management System; Airport Revenue Management; Flight Journal Statistics and Forecasting System; Aircraft Operators Invoicing System; Aircraft Movement Statistics and Forecasting