Benoit Verbaere

Benoit is the director of business development, travel and transportation at SITA, overseeing new markets across land, sea, air, intermodal travel, and advanced air mobility (AAM) worldwide. With extensive experience in the digital and travel industries, he has worked internationally across three continents. His roles have included innovation, product management, platform engineering, industry architecture, and business development. Benoit brings a global perspective and expertise to shaping the future of travel and transportation.

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Athens: an intermodal airport hub operating across air, land, and sea

As the trend toward intermodal continues to grow, join our session and explore how Athens International Airport (AIA) leverages advanced technologies in its local ecosystem to enhance operations across air, land, and sea. AIA exemplifies an approach focusing on operational excellence and passenger experience with a strong focus on data exchange. Smart applications can improve aviation performance, safety, passenger convenience, operational efficiency, and resource optimization. As an airport working with airlines, railways, ports, cruises, and ferries, we like to think of an ecosystem of connected travel segment operators, reshaping the industry, improving the experience, and driving efficiency across multiple domains.

The audience will learn:

• What are the elements of an intermodal transportation hub system and how they impact airport operations?
• How the coordination of the different transportation modes can lead to more efficient and effective utilization of airport resources
• Tools and methods to achieve a high level of visibility toward the entire passenger journey through the different transportation modes
• Identification of data sources and definition of data-sharing scenarios that empower the different transportation actors
• The impact that an interconnected travel journey among different modes of transportation has on passenger experience