NextGen En Route Traffic Optimization to Reduce Fuel Burn and Emissions Part 2
En route airspace throughput (the number of aircraft than can safely fly though a given location over a given time) can be increased by optimizing aircraft cruise altitude and speed based on the distance between their origin and destination. The increase in throughput, and the corresponding reductions in fuel burn and emissions, result when aircraft can fly closer to the optimum altitude for their performance characteristics, and from a reduction in situations where one aircraft gets "stuck" behind another with a lower optimal cruise speed.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Program Information: Centers of Excellence, Aircraft Noise and Aviation Emissions Mitigation
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $1743918.00
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Contract Numbers:
09-C-NE-GIT-044
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Aviation Administration
800 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC United States 20591 -
Project Managers:
Windhoffer, Laszlo
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Performing Organizations:
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
505 10th Street, Suite 213
Atlanta, GA United States 30332 -
Principal Investigators:
Clarke, John-Paul
- Start Date: 20100601
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20110515
- Source Data: RiP Project 40122
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Airspace utilization; Altitude; Optimization; Origin and destination; Pollutants
- Identifier Terms: Next Generation Air Transportation System
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01570520
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 09-C-NE-GIT-044
- Files: RIP
- Created Date: Jul 23 2015 1:00AM