Aviation Community Recommended Information Services: One community, one data exchange standard.

The aviation industry is growing fast and will need more business interoperability to manage the challenge of growth efficiently over the coming years. This paper shows how the Airports Council International (ACI) World working group, Aviation Community Recommended Information Services (ACRIS), supports the need for more business interoperability by defining standardised information services and their representations as WebServices' using state-of-the-art world wide web technologies. The ACRIS WebServices already support various business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) scenarios all over the aviation industry, such as self-service bag drop off and self-boarding processes, Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) implementations and airports' mobile passenger app strategies. In the next steps the ACI ACRIS Working Group will facilitate a digital transformation of the airport business by supporting open data and open API (Application Programming Interface) strategies through an 'ACRIS API Shop'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]