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Products & Services

At Royal Schiphol Group, we believe data and technology gives our travellers, employees and partners superpowers. We develop tools and services to unlock these powers. With digital products and services, we improve our daily challenges and implement fundamental changes in existing processes.

Innovating together

At Royal Schiphol Group, we continuously experiment in our search for solutions to complex challenges. Together, we explore our current reality, the near future, and distant futures we cannot even fully envision yet. We believe together we can only accelerate innovation together.

EU funding

At Royal Schiphol Group we are committed to making the aviation industry more sustainable together with our partners. We are working collaboratively on several innovation projects co-funded by the European Union. This way, we can combine our strengths and accelerate the processes that are leading us to a more sustainable future.

Latest developments

19 November

Live Testing OTISS for Autonomous Airside Operations

8 October

Testing an Autonomous Baggage Vehicle

Schiphol and KLM are testing Auto-DollyTug. This vehicle will separate the baggage of passengers with long transfer times from those with short transfer times.

10 September

Monitoring APU usage to reduce emissions

Various sector partners at Schiphol are committed to reduce aircraft APU usage at Schiphol. To achieve this we are trying different things.

29 February

Test capturing ultrafine particles with droplets

We are working diligently to reduce the amount of ultrafine particles. A possibility is the use of water droplets to remove ultrafine particles from the air.

29 February

Tap and go with your Digital Travel Credential!

Can you board and cross the border faster with a digital travel document? At the request of the EU, we are testing a DTC together with the government and KLM.

7 November 2023

Autonomous Bus Initiative

Our ambition: operating the world's most sustainable and top-tier airports by 2050. With this in mind we're putting autonomous buses to the test on airside.

8 September 2023

New research lab for ultrafine particles on apron

A research lab has been opened at two aircraft stands. It will be used to measure ultrafine particles, test measures and experiment with innovative ideas.

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