--- title: Whitehall drops £100K to keep airport model from crashing description: The UK Department for Transport is tendering up to £100,000 over three years for a C++ developer to maintain NAPAM, its National Aviation Passenger Allocation... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/whitehall-drops-100k-to-keep-airport-model-from-crashing-nriij3wzc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Whitehall drops £100K to keep airport model from crashing | daily.dev og:description: The UK Department for Transport is tendering up to £100,000 over three years for a C++ developer to maintain NAPAM, its National Aviation Passenger Allocation... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/whitehall-drops-100k-to-keep-airport-model-from-crashing-nriij3wzc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nRiij3wzC.png og:image:alt: Whitehall drops £100K to keep airport model from crashing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Whitehall drops £100K to keep airport model from crashing **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The UK Department for Transport is tendering up to £100,000 over three years for a C++ developer to maintain NAPAM, its National Aviation Passenger Allocation Model. The module consists of ~10,000 lines of C++ code in a Microsoft .NET environment with Excel for data I/O, and has been in use since at least 2010. It models passenger airport choices across 29 UK airports and four major overseas hubs using CAA survey data, transport costs, and capacity constraints. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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