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45 Access control—Practice of restricting entrance to a prop- erty, a building, or a room to authorized persons only. Air Operations Database (AODB)—Central database to be used for collecting, analyzing, and sharing the airports operational data among the approved users and other applications. Airports Council International (ACI)—Worldwide airport organization that focuses primarily on international avia- tion issues while concurrently supporting the services and programs of the members in each of its five regions. Air Transport Association (ATA)—Trade association of U.S. airlines. Its primary purpose is to represent the air- lines in government decisions regarding aviation. American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)— Professional organization of airport executives, whose pri- mary goal is to assist airport executives in fulfilling their responsibilities to the airports and communities they serve. Application provider—Entity responsible for the provision and management of its applications accessible from a CUPPS workstation; for example, an airline or third party. Application supplier—Entity responsible for the develop- ment and/or support of an application. Association of European Airlines (AEA)—Commonly refers to the ATB and BTP printer specifications maintained by AEA. Baggage Reconciliation System (BRS)—Automated system designed to provide for the electronic tracking and match- ing of baggage. Baggage reconciliation/tracking—Method of baggage man- agement that creates a bag tag and tracks the baggage throughout the sortation process until it is delivered to the aircraft or the baggage belt. Building management systems—Building management systems are the systems necessary to operate a building. These systems include heating, ventilation, and air condi- tioning (HVAC); energy management control systems; fire detection systems; standby power systems; lighting systems; etc. Closed circuit television (CCTV)—Surveillance equipment used to monitor activities within a required area. Common use—Process, systems, and physical changes needed at an airport to make gates useable by multiple airlines. Common use continuum—Method of measuring the capac- ity of common use changes at an airport. Common Use Passenger Processing (CUPPS)—Describes the range of services, specifications, and standards enacted to enable multiple airlines to share physical check-in and/or gate podium positions (whether simultaneously or consecutively). Common Use Self-Service (CUSS)—Standard for multiple airlines to provide a check-in application for use by pas- sengers on a single device. IATA and ATA adopted this new standard during the Joint Passenger Service Conference in November 2000. The IATA reference is RP1706C and the ATA reference is 30.100. Common use strategy—Plans put together by an airport or an airline to execute common use solutions. Common use technical equipment (CUTE)—Computer sys- tem provided to airlines by the airport that allows airline staff to access their own computer systems without having their own dedicated equipment, while allowing more flex- ible and efficient use of airport facilities. CUPPS application—Certified business application that will run on all CUPPS certified platforms. The CUPPS appli- cation is the essential part of the CUPPS system providing the functionality the CUPPS workstation offers. It depends on the CUPPS application whether a workstation can be used for ticketing, as a gate podium workstation, jet way podium, or anything else. There is theoretically no limita- tion as to the nature and number of applications that can be offered on a CUPPS system. The provider of the CUPPS application could be an airline, airport, or a third party. CUPPS management group—A CUPPS management group comprised of airlines, airports and IATA partners will be responsible for managing the certification process and amending CUPPS standards. CUPPS platform—This defined environment supports applica- tions for one or more airlines and conforms to the standards as described in this Recommended Practice. CUTE CLUB—Cute Local User Board. Dynamic signage—Signage using electronic screens such as liquid crystal display (LCD) or plasma screens that can be used to display information to passengers. The informa- tion on these screens can change, thus making them dynamic. Gate management system (GMS)—Automated system used to manage, consistent with specified airport/airline busi- ness goals, the assignment of airport gates for use by aircraft and potentially services through different airlines. A GMS allows an airport operator or airline to plan, operate, manage, and document the usage of the gates. Depending on sophistication, a GMS can also manage the many resources critical to the movement of aircraft at air- port gates. Highly sophisticated systems are better known as resource management systems. GIDs—Gate information displays. GIS—Geographical information system. Hard stand—Hard-surfaced area for parking aircraft or ground vehicles, usually away from the gates. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)—Set of concepts and techniques for managing information technology (IT) infrastructure, development, and opera- tions. International Air Transport Association (IATA)—Global trade organization for airlines whose mission is to repre- sent, lead, and serve the airline industry. GLOSSARY

Joint Passenger Services Committee (JPSC)—Joint commit- tee between IATA and ATA. Local Boarding Application (LBA)—Allows each airline to communicate with its own host computer system. Local Departure Control System (LDCS)—Facilitates re- conciliation of passenger check-in with reservations, records seat assignments, and prints boarding passes, bag tags, and flight manifests. An LDCS is intended for use by airlines that are not linked to a host system. MOU—Memorandum of Understanding. Multi-User Baggage Information Display System (MU- BIDS)—Dynamic display that shows baggage carousel locations for all incoming flights. Multi-User Flight Information Display System (MUFIDS)— Dynamic display that shows consolidated flight informa- tion for all flight activity at an airport for a defined period of time. OPDB—Operational database (see AODB). Platform provider—Entity responsible for ongoing provision and management of the platform. The platform provider could be an airport, airline, or third party company. Platform supplier—Entity that provides any component of the platform. 46 Premise Distribution System (PDS)—Engineered cable plant designed with the intent of supporting all communications systems network interconnection needs for a substantial period of time. Remain over night (RON)—Areas of an airport used for the overnight parking and staging of an aircraft. Service provider—Entity responsible for maintaining the operational service performance of the platform. Simplifying the Business (StB)—Collection of the following five initiatives by IATA to improve passenger processing and airline business: 1. E-ticketing 2. Common Use Self-Service 3. Bar-coded boarding pass 4. Radio frequency ID 5. IATA e-Freight. Telephony—Use or operation of an apparatus or device for the transmission of sounds between distinct, separate points. Voice over IP (VoIP)—Technology used to transmit voice con- versations over a data network using the Internet protocol. Web application services—Standardized way of integrating web-based applications using standard protocols over the Internet.

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