Patent ID: 7739167

Claim:
A system for managing airport finances, comprising: a data acquisition unit receiving airport operations data from a plurality of sources, the plurality of sources including an automated aircraft tracking system receiving radio signals from aircraft and outputting path of movement data for aircraft in and around the airport as well as passenger and cargo data retrieved from the aircraft, the data acquisition unit outputting data from the received airport operations data; a data correlation unit receiving the airport operations data and processing the airport operations data to remove duplicate entries and outputting a single stream of processed airport operations data; a data warehouse receiving the processed airport operations data and storing the processed airport operations data in a predetermined database format; and an interface automatically interfacing with the data warehouse to retrieve and output processed data from the database the total number of passengers passing through an airport and landed cargo weight for the predetermined time period and calculates a Federal Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant entitlement for the airport.