Toronto’s Pearson International Airport is Canada’s busiest airport, handling 29.9 million passengers in 2005. Established in 1939, Pearson Airport currently handles more than 1,200 arrivals and departures every day - or more than 383,000 aircraft movements last year. By the year 2020, the number of travelers passing through the airport’s gates is expected to reach 50 million.

Pearson International Airport is the first airport in North America to receive certification to the ISO 14001 international environmental standard. Among their many recent undertakings is the design and construction of Terminal One’s new Pier F and a revitalized and expanded Terminal 3. When the GTAA took over responsibility for the operation of Pearson International Airport from Transport Canada in 1996, it took on major challenges. To maximize efficiency and to minimize cost, a bold plan was developed to phase the construction of a revitalized airport the size of a small city.

The GTAA Technical Data Center (TDC), who have responsibility for maintaining site information for Pearson Airport, has recently chosen Oracle Spatial as their primary spatial data store. They also utilize Bentley’s ProjectWise, spatially enabled with Bentley Geospatial Management, and the ProjectWise Connector for Oracle to complete the data editing and data maintenance workflows. By leveraging the disconnected edit