System Level Implications of Changes in Future Aircraft Mission Specifications

Future reductions of fuel burn and green house gas emissions from commercial aviation will be, in large part, achieved through the development and use of more fuel- and environmentally-efficient aircraft. Achieving significant efficiency improvements at the aircraft level may require opening up the design space so as to consider changes in aircraft design mission specifications/capabilities such as lower cruise speed, different payload-range characteristics, and longer wing span. However, there are potentially serious and unforeseen system-wide implications (economics, viability, delays, manufacturability, etc.) that could result from these changes and that have not yet been quantified properly. The main objective of this project is to understand and quantify these implications so that informed decisions can be made.

• Record URL:
  http://partner.mit.edu/projects/analysis-missions-specifications
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Centers of Excellence, Aircraft Noise and Aviation Emissions Mitigation. Additional contract numbers: 09-C-NE-SU-005, 09-C-NE-SU-007, 09-C-NE-GIT-027, 09-C-NE-MIT-019, 09-C-NE-GIT-034.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $11804438.00
• Contract Numbers:

  09-C-NE-MIT-005

  09-C-NE-GIT-012

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  Moran, Pat

• Performing Organizations:

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah

  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  210 Technology Circle
  Savannah, GA  United States  31407

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  77 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139

  Stanford University

  320 Panama Street
  Stanford, CA  United States  94305
• Principal Investigators:

  Hansman, R

  Mavris, Dimitri

  Corcoran, Michael

  Alonso, Juan

• Start Date: 20110401
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20130930
• Source Data: RiP Project 30406

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Aircraft exhaust gases; Civil aviation; Environmental impacts; Greenhouse gases; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fuel burn
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01570712
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 09-C-NE-MIT-005, 09-C-NE-GIT-012
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Jul 25 2015 1:00AM