Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FlyATM4E (Flying Air Traffic Management for the benefit of environment and climate)
Berichtszeitraum: 2021-06-01 bis 2022-11-30
The global society is suffering from the impacts of climate change and global warming. Measures and methods have to be developed, defined and implemented to reduce the anthropogenic climate footprint. FlyATM4E is addressing the reduction of environmental impacts by identifying alternative climate-optimized aircraft trajectories by operational measures avoiding regions of the atmosphere which are in particular sensitive to aviation emissions. This enables the reduction of the climate impact of European air traffic, especially for individual flights, while increasing ATM efficiency. By developing methods and strategies to facilitate climate-optimised flight planning and thus limiting the climate change caused by aviation, not only in Europe, but globally applicable, FlyATM4E directly complies with the central element of the Paris Agreement. Moreover, during the course of the project, FlyATM4E developed and applied robust algorithmic climate change functions and formulated recommendations on implementing strategies for integrating climate change impact reduction flight planning into international aviation policies, strategies and planning and thereby complements the UN goal 13.2. FlyATM4E established close interaction between the scientific partners, aviation stakeholders and the general public and thereby guaranteed a broad dissemination of the project results.
FlyATM4E developed a concept to identify climate-optimised aircraft trajectories which can help ATM to provide a robust and eco-efficient reduction in aviation’s climate impact and estimate associated mitigation potential, considering CO2 and non-CO2 emissions through MET data, ensemble prediction and eco-efficient trajectories. The FlyATM4E consortium built on its expertise covering the whole spectrum from atmospheric science and climate research to aviation operations research and aircraft trajectory optimization.
As a main conclusion, the project results highlight that the mitigation potential of flight trajectory optimization shows a large temporal variability due to the variability of the underlying atmospheric conditions. Moreover, information on the mitigation potential of the whole air traffic sample could be used in the future as input for our optimization tools to limit cost penalties.
Dissemination and Communication activities grew progressively with continuous stakeholder exchange. The communication channels were set, i.e. the project webpage (https://flyatm4e.eu/) a linked-in profile (https://www.linkedin.com/company/flyatm4e) and Twitter (@FlyATM4E), all with satisfying KPIs. During the project period, large interest has been experienced from outside the project in this topic leading to participation in a series of dissemination events comprising scientific conferences, stakeholder seminars, and contacts to regulators, as well as resulting in the publication of scientific papers.