Global Fuel Burn and Emissions to 2050

Global fuel burn and emissions inventories provide the underlying foundation for climate research within the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI). These inventories and projections are provided to ACCRI researchers for a 2006 baseline year (31.3 million flights) and future years to 2050. They are computed using the FAA’s Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT), designed to assess interdependencies between aviation-produced noise, emissions and fuel burn. The operational data comprising the 2006 inventories cover roughly 80% of global operations, including all commercial operations following Instrument Flight Rules. Future projections represent a range of scenarios that consider both aircraft technology and system-wide operational improvements. This paper discusses the baseline 2006 data, as well as the method for forecasting future operational data. The paper also overviews the AEDT methods for computing aircraft performance, including the resultant fuel burn and emissions. Aggregate fuel burn and emissions inventory data are provided.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AV030 Environmental Impacts of Aviation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Fleming, Gregg G
  • Balasubramanian, Sathya
  • Malwitz, Andrew
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft operations; Forecasting; Fuel consumption; Methodology; Pollutants
• Identifier Terms: Aviation Environmental Design Tool
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516484
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-0255
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM