Item No. 8a
Meeting Date: September 24, 2019

Safedock Upgrade and Expansion Project
CIP#  C800779

Aircraft Safety and Guidance System
• Visual docking guidance and ramp information display.

• Guides pilot to nose stop saving fuel & reducing congestion.
• Scans ramp area for obstacles to aircraft docking.
• Docks planes following adjacency rules and can dock without
personnel (unavailable ground crew, bad weather).

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Ramp display unit
Display, video camera and lasers.
Mounted on/near stairwells, on
buildings, on posts, or on jet-bridges.

Connected to power and network.

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Scope
• Decommission and remove existing mounting hardware and outdated Safedock and
Ramp Information Display units.
• Install Safedock units with video cameras and apron scanning at the B, C, and D
Concourses and the South Satellite.
• Provide the network connectivity to allow data and gate usage metrics gathered
from the A-VDGS units to feed into a centralized database for use by staff and the
airlines.
• Re-route existing network cabling from local communication rooms to STIA's newly
installed micro-distribution cabinets.
• Testing and commissioning of all systems, software, user interfaces and data
collection.

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Schedule
• Commission Authorization for Construction
• Construction Start
• In-use date

2019 Quarter 3
2020 Quarter 1
2021 Quarter 2

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Budget
• Design
• Construction
• Total

$2,383,750
$25,834,500
$28,218,250

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