New services at Riga International Airport
On 19 August 2011 the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (VAS „Latvijas Investīciju un attīstības aģentūra”) and Riga International Airport signed an agreement on implementation of the project „Introduction of new services at Riga International Airport ”(“the Project”).
Goal
Extension of the range of airport services by introducing new aviation security solutions.
The following activities will be implemented within the Project framework:
- Installation of electronic security gates (E-gates) in order to ensure automatic check of boarding passes and to prevent any deliberate or unintentional human errors as well as to eliminate the need for printed boarding passes and thus minimize the environmental impact of this process;
- Implementation of the Baggage Reconciliation System (BRS) facilitating:
- transportation of baggage on the same flight with its owner and compliance with the necessary security measures;
- minimized possibility of baggage being mislaid or not reaching the destination;
- shorter baggage handling time;
- baggage information being received by the Airport and forwarded to the airport of destination. - Installation of the wireless data transmission network (Wi-Fi) to enable BRS data receipt and transmission operations.
Total Project costs amount to LVL 381 309.00, of which attributable costs are LVL370 404.70. ERDF co-finances 35% of the Project attributable costs or LVL129 641.64. The remaining funds are raised by the Airport.
The term of the Project implementation: 19 August 2011 – 19 June2012.
The project will be implemented under Operational Programme 2 „Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, Priority 2.1 „Science and Innovation”, Measure 2.1.2 „Innovation”, Activity 2.1.2.2 „Development of New products and Technologies”, Sub-activity 2.1.2.2.2 „Development of New products and Technologies – Aid for Implementation of New Products and Technologies in Production”.
