Report
Project 011B: Rapid Fleet-Wide Environmental Assessment Capabilities
Washington State University
2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000001725
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/119682
Appears in Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT)
Abstract
This project focuses on continued development of ASDL’s rapid fleet-wide environmental assessment capabilities that complement the
FAA’s Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) with a lower fidelity screening tool that allows for consideration of a large number of
technology scenarios. These technology scenarios can be quickly analyzed and reduced to a manageable set of scenarios for more
focused, high fidelity analysis in the environmental tools suite. The Global and Regional Environmental Assessment Tradeoff (GREAT)
tool has been developed, validated, and utilized on several FAA and NASA projects in the past that have assessed fleet-level fuel burn
and emissions over time. This tool links official forecasts, origin-destination pair route scaling, and replacement schedules to
comparatively evaluate multiple technology and policy scenarios. In recent years, GREAT has been linked to ASDL’s Airport Noise
Grid Integration Method (ANGIM) tool to automatically generate baseline and future year airport schedules. While ANGIM has been
validated against the FAA’s INM tool and the method has been peer reviewed and published in AIAA’s Journal of Aircraft, ANGIM had
never been formally validated against AEDT and official inventory studies. The goal of this project was to validate ANGIM against
AEDT using the 2012 Goals and Target Benefit Assessment (GATBA) and determine possible improvements to the linked
GREAT-ANGIM tool based on the results of this comparative study.
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Details
- Title
- Project 011B: Rapid Fleet-Wide Environmental Assessment Capabilities
- Creators
- R. John Hansman (Author) - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDimitri N. Mavris (Author) - Georgia Institute of Technology
- Academic Unit
- Modeling Tools; Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT)
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Grants
- 13-C-AJFE-GIT-002, Federal Aviation Administration (United States, Washington) - FAA
- Identifiers
- 99900622297701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report