In the first period (up to M18), most of the technical effort was conducted on elaborating the scenarios and populating the techno database for the main strand, and to identify the existing courses on aviation noise and emission for the second strand.
The effort made on scenarios led to the description of four full-fledged scenarios: a baseline one, a techno-push one, a climate regulation-based one and a last one on depicting “fragmented world”. From these scenarios, we derived figures for traffic growth, traffic composition, airports congestion, market demand and shares of aircraft types.
The initial effort on the techno database – a route hardly exploitable as inputs for the simulation phase - was provisionally postponed and we preferred to provide noise and emissions benefits for a dozen of aircraft platforms, a more accessible and more fruitful approach.
As for the secondary strand on education, we mostly identified the existing courses proposed across Europe on aviation noise and emissions. In the same strand, we have also prepared and started diffusing a survey for identifying opinions and needs of the industry on the environmental education of aircraft engineers and specialists.
In the second period (M19-M36), we first completed and consolidated the aircraft platforms with benefits (“deltas”) for each of them in terms of noise and emissions. This completion then allowed us to perform the planned “quantitative assessments”, i.e. the computation of landing-and-take-off (LTO) noise and emissions as well as the overall emissions (at continental level) of the fleet in each scenario for each time horizon with such aircraft platforms. Such outcomes have been introduced during experts’ conferences (respectively CEAS/ASC for noise and ECATS for emissions) and are now being consolidated further to such experts’ feedback (“qualitative assessment”). In parallel, we performed the “reverse” analysis for identifying which techno packs with which performances allow the claimed benefits for the aircraft platforms. This phase is now being finalized and its conclusions will be incorporated in the final recommendations of the PULSAR.
In parallel, the PULSAR consortium issued a White paper to inform the European Commission about provisional “Rationale and Recommendations for research on aviation noise” and “Rationale and Recommendations for research on aviation emissions and induced climate & air quality effects”. This document is now being expanded into a full-fledged roadmap – which will also incorporate outcomes of the quantitative and qualitative assessments – to form the final PULSAR recommendation on research of aviation noise and emissions.
This document will complement the work achieved throughout the project’s educational strand which ultimately led to issue the PULSAR Online Education Portal summarizing the available postgraduate courses on aviation noise and emissions across Europe. This deliverable came with a gap analysis identifying discrepancies between the educational offer and needs based on a survey.
