Periodic Reporting for period 3 - GREAT (Greener Air Traffic Operations)
Reporting period: 2023-01-01 to 2023-06-30
The flight trajectories are influenced on one hand by environmental and aircraft parameters, and on the other hand by air traffic control (ATC) driven parameters, like route length or usable altitudes. Thereby, to reduce the emissions in short and medium term, changes in flight trajectory design and ATC operations are one appropriate means.
The overall objective of GreAT is to reduce the fuel consumption and gas emissions during “gate-to-gate” flight phases through developing and accessing environment-friendly air traffic operational concepts, adaptive airspace structures and green trajectory optimization technologies, and supporting avionic systems. Evaluation campaigns between the European partners, combined with the Chinese partners through cross evaluations are intended to validate the proposed concept and to show a potential significant reduction of the aviation’s impact on climate change.
The results of this project are beneficial for both Europe and China in terms of technology, economy and society.
The mutual benefits from this project are listed as follows:
• The alignment of technology and concepts are enhanced between Europe and China in the area of air traffic management. Expertise was shared on operational improvement to mitigate the environmental impact.
• The coordinated evaluation enabled a common validation and environmental impact assessment methodology, which can be applied in both Europe and China.
• The concepts and algorithms developed within this project were simulated and validated in the validation environments established by EU and Chinese partners to test the adaptation in European and Chinese air traffic scenarios.