TY - GEN
T1 - Developing optimal airline fleets under environmental and capacity constraints
AU - Moolchandani, Kushal A.
AU - Agusdinata, Datu B.
AU - DeLaurentis, Daniel A.
AU - Crossley, William A.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Fleet-level Environmental Evaluation Tool (FLEET) is a NASA sponsored simulation tool to assess environmental impact of aviation (emissions and noise) impact under scenarios of market demand and aircraft technology availability. By modeling airline operations as a resource allocation problem, various scenarios of market and economic conditions, aircraft technology availability and policy implementation can be studied using FLEET. The current work focuses on evaluation of the decisions airlines make in order to stay competitive and the consequent impact on air travel in the face of imposed environmental policy and airport capacity constraints. Also, the fraction of market demand served under various emissions reduction targets is computed. Results indicate that imposing very strict carbon emissions constraints could be counterproductive in the sense that a significant portion of demand will go unmet.
AB - Fleet-level Environmental Evaluation Tool (FLEET) is a NASA sponsored simulation tool to assess environmental impact of aviation (emissions and noise) impact under scenarios of market demand and aircraft technology availability. By modeling airline operations as a resource allocation problem, various scenarios of market and economic conditions, aircraft technology availability and policy implementation can be studied using FLEET. The current work focuses on evaluation of the decisions airlines make in order to stay competitive and the consequent impact on air travel in the face of imposed environmental policy and airport capacity constraints. Also, the fraction of market demand served under various emissions reduction targets is computed. Results indicate that imposing very strict carbon emissions constraints could be counterproductive in the sense that a significant portion of demand will go unmet.
KW - Airline fleet
KW - Environmental impact
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879019822
SN - 9781622767540
T3 - 28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012
SP - 4820
EP - 4829
BT - 28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012
T2 - 28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012
Y2 - 23 September 2012 through 28 September 2012
ER -