Impact of aircraft performance differences on fuel consumption of aircraft in air traffic management environment

Cavcar, Aydan; Cavcar, Mustafa

doi:10.1108/00022660410555176

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“…In the operational field, the study of the optimal trajectory has been broadly researched [69][70][71], in most of the cases linked to FCO. The FCO in the air transport sector is an old topic [72], and aside from the obvious business interests, sustainability is making it again a trending topic [73][74][75][76].…”

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Digitalization: An Opportunity for Contributing to Sustainability From Knowledge Creation

2020

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This paper aims at exploring the perspective of sustainability when digital transformation is adopted by one organization, although it was not the first goal targeted. Two different cases are analyzed, covering manufacturing and service industries. In those cases different factors will be analyzed, mainly focused on the positive effects of knowledge creation facilitated by direct or indirect application of digitalization. Specific analysis of different cases were carried out to identify different initiatives and the impact on environmental performance. The positive effects of the institutional dimension were also assessed.

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Digitalization: An Opportunity for Contributing to Sustainability From Knowledge Creation

2020

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“…In another application, intelligent computing models are claimed for ATFM as presented in [24]. Due to the increase of air traffic density and relatively limited number of airways, the future solution for optimal airspace and safe air traffic control is proposed in [25]. A protocol for aircraft conflict resolution is proposed in [26][27][28] for information horizon in which the communication range of an aircraft is finite.…”

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Z Specification of Gate and Apron Control Management at Airport

Zafar

Alhumaidan

Khan

2014

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Modelling of an air traffic control (ATC) system is an open issue and has become a challenging problem due to its complexity and increase of traffic at airports and in airspace. Consequently, automated ATC systems are suggested to improve efficiency ensuring the safety standards. It is reported that the number of collisions that occurred at airports surface is three times larger than in airspace. Further, it is observed that gates and aprons congestions cause significant delays at airports; hence, effective monitoring and guidance mechanisms are required to control ground air traffic. In this paper, formal procedure of managing air traffic from gate to enter in the active area of airport for taxiing is provided using Z notation. An integration of gate and apron controllers is described to manipulate the information for correct decision making and flow management. Graph theory is used for representation of airport topology and appropriate routs. In static part of the model, safety properties are described in terms of invariants over the critical data types. In dynamic model, the state space is updated by defining pre- and postconditions ensuring the safety. Formal specification is analysed using Z/Eves tool.

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“…Aircraft Range Performance Parameters (ARPPs) are important not only to decrease the above-mentioned negative effects but also to maintain environmental and economic sustainability. Because of these reasons, aircraft range performance has been investigated by many authors (9)(10)(11) . The consideration of aircraft range performance, covering aircraft aerodynamic performance and engine performance, is an essential operational necessity for commercial airlines (12,13) .…”

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Enhanced cruise range prediction for narrow-body turbofan commercial aircraft based on QAR data

Atasoy

Çetek²

2020

Aeronaut. j.

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Aircraft performance parameters play a critical role in maintaining economic and environmental sustainability in aviation. Furthermore, the ability to calculate aircraft performance parameters accurately for the cruise range contributes to aviation in areas such as the preliminary design of aircraft and air traffic management. This study is focused on cruise range performance, as this is critical to both the evaluation and understanding of the economic and environmental impacts of commercial aircraft. Quick Access Recorders (QAR) data were used for more accurate analysis of the cruise range. The QAR data used in this study included 6,574 short-distance domestic flights by narrow-body turbofan commercial aircraft between 31 different city pairs. To obtain a more accurate cruise range equation, parameters affecting the cruise range performance were determined and studied. First, the drag polar model was improved to take the cambered profile, compressibility effects and cruise airspeeds of commercial aircraft into consideration using the real flight data. Second, Thrust-Specific Fuel Consumption (TSFC) models were compared and the most suitable one for the cruise phase was selected. After these steps, cruise range values were calculated using the Breguet range equation with these improved parameters. When the results of this enhanced range model were compared with the real flight data, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) was found to be 2.5% for all the Aircraft and Engine Type Groups (AETGs) considered in the data. This figure corresponds to a 7.9% smaller error than provided by previous range models based on simple parabolic drag polar and TSFC models. According to these results, the application of a simple parabolic drag polar and TSFC is not appropriate for cruise range calculations.

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Impact of aircraft performance differences on fuel consumption of aircraft in air traffic management environment

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Digitalization: An Opportunity for Contributing to Sustainability From Knowledge Creation

Digitalization: An Opportunity for Contributing to Sustainability From Knowledge Creation

Z Specification of Gate and Apron Control Management at Airport

Enhanced cruise range prediction for narrow-body turbofan commercial aircraft based on QAR data

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