Reported impact
Business outcome
Within just over a year, DFW used the platforms to reduce peak congestion by roughly 24%, cut reaction times from tens of minutes to seconds, raise maintenance efficiency by more than 20%, and increase maintenance completion from around 80% to over 90%, while transferring ownership of the platforms to DFW teams.
- Customer Experience
- Productivity Improvement
- Scalability
Solution
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport worked with BCG to embed AI directly into frontline operations as it expanded the airport by about 20% and prepared for more than 100 million passengers a year. After a workshop with operations, public safety, maintenance, engineering, and technology teams, the program focused on two production platforms. AWARE (Advanced Warning and Response Exchange) fuses more than 10 real-time data streams and generates over 120,000 predictions a day across 26 key roadways so operations, police, and ground transport can act on congestion before it escalates. In parallel, the Resource Scheduling Optimizer combines workforce availability, maintenance demand, work-order history, sensor data, and condition data on an asset-health foundation, then serves technicians a digital work application, optimized schedules, and an asset-manager cockpit. BCG initially led delivery and then transferred ownership so DFW could operate and extend the platforms itself.
Data flow
More than 10 real-time data streams feed AWARE, which produces roadway and curbside predictions for operations, police, and ground transport teams. Separately, work-order history, sensor data, and condition information feed the asset-health foundation, which powers the Resource Scheduling Optimizer and asset-manager cockpit to dispatch technicians and guide asset decisions.