WP5 - Assessment

The main objective of this work package is to perform a higher-fidelity assessment of the aircraft designs chosen in WP4 in order to assess the effectiveness and validity of the climate functions for aircraft design developed in WP3. Therefore, the following more detailed objectives have to be accomplished:

  • Creation of global emission inventories for reference and climate optimized aircraft designs
  • Estimation of the global climate impact and associated direct operating costs for reference and climate optimized aircraft designs
  • Analysis of the compliance with additional regulations (e. g. noise, local air quality)

Within this task, detailed trajectory calculations are performed for both, the reference as well as the climate optimized aircraft design from WP 4 for the market segment(s) and the corresponding route network(s) selected in WP 2. The resulting emission distributions along each route of the route network are aggregated as emission inventories.

Based on the detailed trajectory calculations and the emission inventories generated in WP 5 task 1, the resulting climate impact for both, the reference and the climate optimized aircraft design is estimated using a higher fidelity climate impact assessment model in order to validate the climate functions derived in WP 3. Moreover, direct operating costs resulting from the operation of the reference and the climate optimized aircraft on the regarded market segment’s/ segments’ route network(s) are estimated and compared against each other.

Within this task, the compliance of the climate optimized aircraft design from WP 4 with additional current and future regulations including noise and local air quality is investigated.

Address

Institute of Air Transportation Systems

Hamburg University of Technology

Blohmstrasse 20

21079 Hamburg

Germany

Contact Information

Call: +49(0)-40 42878-3720
Email: kaushik.radhakrishnan@tuhh.com

Acknowledgement

The project leading to this application has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 865300.