Where do planes fly past overhead? Determining departure and arrival routes from radar traces

Dobruszkes, Frédéric; Peeters, Didier

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.10.009

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“…Such new directions would include works based on the actual trajectories followed by planes and investigations into air procedures in relation to aircraft noise around airports. Indeed, published navigation charts are figurative and need to be controlled by the real tracks flown (Dobruszkes and Peeters, 2017). This is especially interesting for researchers who cannot access flight traces held by Air Navigation Service Providers.…”

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The magnitude of detours faced by commercial flights: A global assessment

Dobruszkes

Peeters

2019

Journal of Transport Geography

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Scholars and experts in transportation, economics, geography and environmental studies have largely assumed the distance flown by commercial planes represents the shortest route (also known as the great-circle or orthodromic route). However, in the real world, planes follow longer itineraries for various reasons. The magnitude of these detours is assessed through a large, one-week sample of actual flight traces obtained from Flightradar, which we compare with great-circle distances (n=393,360). The results suggest that the average lengthening is 7.6 %, although under conservative hypotheses and with high standard deviation. The shortest flights are proportionally more affected. They also contribute more to the global amount of extra kilometres. The geography of detours by departure airport is the consequence of a wide range of factors. As a result, considering the use of great-circle distances to feed spatial interaction models, emission (or fuel burnt) assessments or airline rankings can lead to significantly skewed outcomes. In addition, detours imposed on certain airlines for geopolitical reasons increase costs, emissions and time aboard, and could be anticompetitive.

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The magnitude of detours faced by commercial flights: A global assessment

Dobruszkes

Peeters

2019

Journal of Transport Geography

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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow

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2023

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When environmental indicators are not neutral: Assessing aircraft noise assessment in Europe

Dobruszkes

Efthymiou

2020

Journal of Air Transport Management

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This paper brings the lessons of critical thinking of environmental indicators to transport studies. To demonstrate the extent to which these indicators are not neutral, the case study focuses on airport noise indicators imposed by both the European Union and Flanders, Belgium, as they are applied to Brussels Airport's operations. Three directions have been considered. First, we unveil the spatial mismatch between protests and official noise contours that are supposed to reflect overall annoyance and sleep disturbance. Then we highlight the high sensitivity of the mandatory noise indicators (Lden, Lnight and dose-effect function) to both their definition and the thresholds considered. Second, we review the legislative process at the time the EU and Flanders adopted their regulation on noise assessment. It appears both the nature of the indicators and thresholds have been the subject of debate by EU Ministers and MPs, while Flanders has imposed a dose-effect function that is arguably outdated and unusable in specific cases. Finally, we discuss the results through the lens of the authoritative power of official noise indicators and related maps, which many journalists and scholars take for granted. All this contributes to the construction of distorted knowledge of noise issues and calls for a reevaluation of the EU's and Flanders' noise indicators.

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Where do planes fly past overhead? Determining departure and arrival routes from radar traces

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

The magnitude of detours faced by commercial flights: A global assessment

The magnitude of detours faced by commercial flights: A global assessment

After flight. Visions from London Heathrow

When environmental indicators are not neutral: Assessing aircraft noise assessment in Europe

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