AirNav

Making travel at airports easier through a navigation app, improved signs, and colour coding terminals.

In Australia, where we live, we found that airports are not inclusive to people who don't speak, or are not confident in speaking English because signs are only written in english and the most common languages in the world. We also found that airports can be generally difficult to navigate to people who have never been there or are under the stress that comes with airports. 

Our solution contains three parts. The first is an app that people can download on their phone which currently uses location beacons placed around the airport to guide people through the airport to their desired place; mainly, gates and security, but also other places such as pray rooms. The second part of our solution is adding more languages to the important signs through airports for the people who do not speak english or the main language in the country they are in. Finally our solution includes painting visible coloured lines on the sides of the roads leading up to the different terminals. This is most important in bigger airports where not all the terminals are in the same place. 

Our solution serves anyone who goes to or uses an airport, especially if it a new airport to them, and people who are not confident in speaking english or the main the language of the country the airport is located. Currently, airport do not have signage that is clear to everyone and are difficult to navigate, AirNav will make their experience in airports less stressful and make travelling easier for them. 

Our team have all been through different airports in different places and under different circumstances. Some of us have been to countries where the main language is not english and have not been able to read signs and navigate through the airport correctly. Some of us have only been to other airports in Australia, but have been in stressful situations, such as quick lay over and not knowing where the next gate is, and airports being really big and in multiple different locations. 

We have spoken to lots of people who all have different experiences of travelling through airports and getting lost. We have also done research and found that in 2018, 1 of 7 travellers had missed their flight because of not being able to get to their gate in time.