Accounting for the carbon emissions from domestic air routes in China

Abstract

This study seeks to build a database of China's 413 main routes in 2018, which contains the carbon emission intensity of the leading aircraft types, the Climb/Cruise/Descent (CCD) carbon emissions of each airline and each route, and the probable emissions when the routes are straight. First, the Modified Fuel Percentage Method (MFPM) is applied to calculate the carbon emission intensity of main aircraft types at various distances. Next, the carbon emissions and the Revenue Passenger Kilometers of 413 routes and 40 airlines are calculated. Then the carbon emissions of the actual route and straight route are analyzed. Dali-Kunming and Joy Air have the most significant emission intensity among the routes and airlines. However, the excess emissions from the non-straight routes account for about 10.15% of the actual emissions.

Impacts of the proposal of the CNG2020 strategy on aircraft emissions of China-Foreign routes

“…The CCD and LTO emissions of each route and airline for the six pollutions from 2014 to 2019 can be found in Cui (2022) (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20071751.v1).…”

Impacts of the COVID-19 on all aircraft emissions of international routes in South America

“…As South America is an essential part of the international civil aviation industry, it is vital to study the impact of COVID-19 on its aviation industry. A lot of research has focused on the effects of COVID-19 on the aviation industry, mainly in four aspects: the significant losses resulting from COVID-19 (Lacus et al, 2020), restoration of passenger confidence (Lamb et al, 2020), the support of the government and relevant institutions (Czerny et al, 2021), self-rescue measures of civil aviation enterprises (Samanci et al, 2021), and the recovery path (Cui et al, 2022a(Cui et al, , 2022b. However, there has been little research into the impact of COVID-19 on aviation emissions.…”

“…EMEP calculation method mainly analyzes the emission characteristics of aero-engine from the fuel perspective and ignores the differences between engine types. The ICAO method is more general, but the distance difference is not enough, and there is no difference between specific aircraft (Cui et al, 2022a(Cui et al, , 2022b.…”

Accounting for the aircraft emissions of China’s domestic routes during 2014–2019

“…For the CCD emissions, Cui et al . used the modified fuel percentage method (MFPM) to calculate the carbon emission intensity of major airliners at different distances and established the database of 413 major airlines in China in 2018 11 . Cokorilo estimated the emission of aircraft in Belgrade Airport using the ICAO method 12 .…”

“…Other pollutants emitted by aviation mainly include CO, NO x , SO 2 , HC, and PM2.5. Many methods can calculate aviation pollutant emissions, including ICAO advanced method 8 , 11 , 16 , 17 , ICAO Complex method 18 – 20 , FOA3.0 method specially provided by ICAO for calculating particulate emission index 6 , 21 , American EPA method 5 , 22 , and European EMEP method 23 – 26 , etc.…”