Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency
The continuous trend of rising fuel prices increases interest in improving the fuel efficiency of aircraft operations. Additionally, since fuel burn is directly linked to aircraft CO2 emissions, reducing fuel consumption has environmental benefits. One approach to reducing airline cost and mitiga...
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| author | Bishop, Kristina Hansman, R. John |
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| description | The continuous trend of rising fuel prices increases interest in improving the fuel
efficiency of aircraft operations. Additionally, since fuel burn is directly linked to aircraft
CO2 emissions, reducing fuel consumption has environmental benefits. One approach to
reducing airline cost and mitigating environmental impacts of aviation is to achieve
higher fuel efficiency by increasing aircraft wingspan. One concern is that airports may
not be able to accommodate increased-wingspan aircraft since existing gate infrastructure
may have been sized for the past and current aircraft. This results in a potential tradeoff
for airlines; increasing wingspan increases fuel efficiency, but it also limits the number of
gates available to maintain current aircraft operations. The objective of this thesis is to
evaluate this tradeoff... |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/711202019-04-10T13:24:40Z Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency Bishop, Kristina Hansman, R. John fuel efficiency aircraft operations fuel burn CO2 emissions aircraft wingspan air transportation The continuous trend of rising fuel prices increases interest in improving the fuel efficiency of aircraft operations. Additionally, since fuel burn is directly linked to aircraft CO2 emissions, reducing fuel consumption has environmental benefits. One approach to reducing airline cost and mitigating environmental impacts of aviation is to achieve higher fuel efficiency by increasing aircraft wingspan. One concern is that airports may not be able to accommodate increased-wingspan aircraft since existing gate infrastructure may have been sized for the past and current aircraft. This results in a potential tradeoff for airlines; increasing wingspan increases fuel efficiency, but it also limits the number of gates available to maintain current aircraft operations. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate this tradeoff... The research efforts for this study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology were supported by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Environment and Energy, under the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Research (PARTNER) Center of Excellence, FAA Cooperative Agreement No. 09-C-NE-MIT, Amendment No. 005, and FAA Contract No. DTFAWA-05-D-00012, Task Order Nos. 0010 and 0012, and by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) under the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Contract No. DTRT57-07-D-30006, Task Order No. DTRTV-T01005. These efforts were managed by Pat Moran and László Windhoffer. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the FAA or the DOT RITA Volpe Center. 2012-06-07T15:36:46Z 2012-06-07T15:36:46Z 2012-06-07 Technical Report http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71120 ICAT;2012-4 An error occurred on the license name. An error occurred getting the license - uri. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | fuel efficiency aircraft operations fuel burn CO2 emissions aircraft wingspan air transportation Bishop, Kristina Hansman, R. John Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency |
| title | Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency |
| title_full | Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency |
| title_fullStr | Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency |
| title_short | Assessment of the Ability of Existing Airport Gate Infrastructure to Accommodate Transport Category Aircraft with Increased Wingspan for Improved Fuel Efficiency |
| title_sort | assessment of the ability of existing airport gate infrastructure to accommodate transport category aircraft with increased wingspan for improved fuel efficiency |
| topic | fuel efficiency aircraft operations fuel burn CO2 emissions aircraft wingspan air transportation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71120 |
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