Report
Project 036: Parametric Uncertainty Assessment for the Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT)
Washington State University
2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000001723
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/119989
Appears in Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT)
Abstract
The FAA’s Office of Environment and Energy has developed a comprehensive suite of software tools that allow for a thorough assessment of the environmental effects of aviation, particularly for assessments of interdependencies among aviation-related noise, emissions, performance, and cost. As the heart of this tool suite, the high-fidelity AEDT is a software system that models aircraft performance in space and time to estimate fuel consumption, emissions, noise, and air quality impacts. This software has been developed by the FAA/AEE for public release as the next-generation FAA environmental consequence tool. AEDT enables evaluations of interdependencies among aircraft-related fuel consumption, emissions, and noise. AEDT 2 was released in four phases. The first version, AEDT 2a, was released in March 2012 (US FAA, AEDT 2a UQ Report, 2014; US FAA, AEDT 2a SP2 UQ Supplemental Report, 2014) and the second version, AEDT 2b, was released in May 2015 (US FAA, AEDT 2b UQ Report, 2016). The third and fourth versions, AEDT 2c and AEDT 2d, respectively, were released in September 2016 and September 2017. A new version, AEDT 3b, was released in September 2019, with major updates, including the inclusion of the BADA4 performance model for fuel consumption, emissions, and noise and the implementation of reduced thrust and alternative weight profiles for departure operations.
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- Title
- Project 036: Parametric Uncertainty Assessment for the Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT)
- Creators
- Yongchang Li (Author) - Georgia Institute of TechnologyDongwook Lim (Author) - Georgia Institute of TechnologyMichelle Kirby (Author) - Georgia Institute of Technology
- Academic Unit
- Modeling Tools; Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT)
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Grants
- 13-C-AJFE-GIT-019, Federal Aviation Administration (United States, Washington) - FAA13-C-AJFE-GIT-29, Federal Aviation Administration (United States, Washington) - FAA13-C-AJFE-GIT-30, Federal Aviation Administration (United States, Washington) - FAA13-C-AJFE-GIT-40, Federal Aviation Administration (United States, Washington) - FAA13-C-AJFE-GIT-49, Federal Aviation Administration (United States, Washington) - FAA
- Identifiers
- 99900622297901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report