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FAA/AEEsAviation Environmental Design
Tool(AEDT )Project StatusChristopher J.
RoofEnvironmental Measurement and Modeling
DivisionDTS-34
EDS Technical Advisory Board January 26, 2006
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Presentation Outline

• Overview of FAA/AEE Tool Suite
• Need for AEDT
• Project Team
• Project Status
• - Database Harmonization
• - Prototypes
• Schedule
• Closing Remarks

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New Toolset Definitions
Environmental Design Space (EDS) An aircraft
systems model that integrates engine and aircraft
design with aircraft operations to examine
environmental performance and technology
development providing a single source of aircraft
data to AEDT. Aviation Environmental Design Tool
(AEDT) Merging of existing tools and new modules
into both a publicly available,
regulatory/planning component (Local) and the
policy component of AEDT (Global). Aviation
Environmental Portfolio Management Tool (APMT)
The economic analysis capability to be integrated
with AEDT and EDS.
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Overview of AEE Tool Suite

Vehicle Noise Design Tools
EDS
What are the environmental implications of this
design?
Technology Impact Forecasting
Vehicle Emissions Design Tools
Design Tools Interface
Vehicle Cost Assessment
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Overview of AEE Tool Suite
AEDT

EDS

Vehicle Noise Design Tools
Airport-level Emissions Tools
Airport-level Noise Tools
Technology Impact Forecasting
Vehicle Emissions Design Tools
Vehicle Noise/Emissions /Performance Characteristi
cs
Design Tools Interface
Global Emissions Inventories
Global Noise Assessment
Vehicle Cost Assessment
What are the costs associated with this design?
What are the benefits in implementing this design?
and
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Overview of AEE Tool Suite
AEDT
Vehicle Noise Design Tools


EDS
Airport-level Emissions Tools
Airport-level Noise Tools
Technology Impact Forecasting
Vehicle Emissions Design Tools
Vehicle Noise/Emissions /Performance Characteristi
cs
Design Tools Interface
Global Emissions Inventories
Global Noise Assessment
Vehicle Cost Assessment
APMT
Environmental Exposure Characteristics
Microeconomic Assessment Tools
Macroeconomic Assessment Tools
Vehicle Cost Characteristics
Cost/Benefits of Options
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The Need for AEDT

• DOT 2004 RD Annual Review
• FAA 2005-2009 Flight Plan (http//www1.faa.gov/ab
  outfaa/flightplan.cfm)
• Joint Planning and Development Office
• Next Generation Air Transportation System

Ensure aviation remains a good neighbor.
Develop better technologies and analytical tools
to evaluate aircraft noise and emissions.
Create new analytical tools to understand better
the relationship between noise and emissions, the
different types of emissions, and the costs and
benefits of different policies and actions.
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The Need for AEDT

• FAAs lead role in ICAO CAEP (e.g., noise and NOx
  stringency)
• FAAs regulatory obligations for legacy tools
• - EDMS (CAEP, NEPA, SIPs, etc.)
• - INM (CAEP, Part 150, NEPA, Air Tour
  Management Act of 2000, etc.)
• - MAGENTA (CAEP, DOT Noise Performance Goal,
  etc.)
• - SAGE (CAEP, FAA Flight Plan Goal, UN
  Framework Convention on Climate Change, etc.)
• Tradeoffs and interdependencies (e.g.,
  A380/Trent)
• Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft Noise
  Committee (A-21)
• (expanding role to include emissions and
  interdependencies)
• Better use of RD funds
• Assessing environmental effects of air traffic
  initiatives, e.g., CDA, RVSM, etc.

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Project Team

• FAA Office of Environment and Energy (AEE)
• Volpe Center (Lead Systems Integrator)
• ATAC Corp.
• CSSI, Inc.
• Wyle Laboratories
• Georgia Tech
• MIT
• (NASA / Industry)

AEDT
EDS/APMT
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Project Status - Database

• Three Primary Global Databases
• - Fleet Database
• - Movements Database
• - Airports Database
• Redesigned database structure to support all
  legacy tools (i.e., INM, EDMS, MAGENTA, SAGE)
• Data harmonized across legacy tools
• Harmonized with available international sources

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Airports Database
Main Airports Database
Runways
Tracks / Track Segments
Helipads
Operations
Entry Fix Points
Capacities
Navaids
Detailed Layouts
Weather
Specialized-Data that needs to be acquired on
an airport-by-airport basis. Usually compiled
for local models. Some examples are
trajectories, area population, and airport
boundaries.
General- Data already existing in global
airport databases. Some examples are airport
reference point (ARP) positions, runways, and
navaids.
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Airports Database

• Main Airports Database
• Sources
• Legacy (EDMS, INM, MAGENTA, SAGE) Current State
• DAFIF (Digital Aeronautical Flight Information
  File) - Enhancement
• NASR (National Airspace System File) -
  Enhancement
• Size
• 4 MB
• 35,000 Records

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Airports Database

• Main Airports Database

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Airports Database

• Main Airports Database

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Airports Database

• Runways Database
• Sources
• DAFIF (Digital Aeronautical Flight Information
  File) - Enhancement
• NASR (National Airspace System File) -
  Enhancement
• Size
• 2 MB
• Runways for 20,000 Airports
• 25,000 Runways Total

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Airports Database

• Runways Database

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Airfield Layouts Database (GIS)

• Potential Sources (Enhancements)
• Satellite imagery
• Space Imaging LLC
• Jeppesen
• Size TBD
• Proposed Content
• Gates and apron markings (points)
• Buildings (polygons)
• Taxiways (lines)
• Roadways (lines)
• Parking Lots/Structures (polygons)
• Helipad markings/touchdown points

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Airports Boundary Database (GIS)

• Potential Sources (Enhancements)
• US
• Census TIGER/Line Files
• Geographic Data Technology (GDT) Database
• 2000 Census
• Non-US
• Digitize Paper Maps
• Satellite Imagery (Space Imaging LLC)
• Airport provided (few)
• Approximation
• Size
• Current Shell 1 US (100 airports) and Shell 2
  US (280 airports)
• Needed
• non-US Shell 1 non-airport-provided (90
  Airports)
• Shell 2 (1200 non-US)?
• Proposed Content
• Boundary (polygon)

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Population Database (GIS)

• Sources (Enhancements)
• US 2000 Census
• Non-US
• Joint Resources Assessment Database System
  (JRADS),
• Gridded Populations of the World (GPW)
• Global Rural Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP),
• Landscan
• Airport-provided or National Census data
  (expensive)
• MapInfo European population databases
• Size Large
• Shells 1 and 2 currently
• Content
• Polygons JRADS
• Raster GPW, GRUMP, and Landscan

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Project Status - Prototypes

• Two Prototypes Currently Underway
• - NOx Prototype
• - Continuous Descent Profile (CDA) Prototype
• Redesigned computational modules, e.g., aircraft
  performance, emissions, fuel burn
• Harmonized common modules across legacy tools
• Integrated common modules across legacy tools

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CDA Prototype

• Objective Develop a modeling capability to
  quantify the environmental benefits of CDA
• Develop generic methodology for modeling baseline
  (existing) approach profiles
• Develop generic methodology for modeling CDA
  approach profiles
• Conduct comparative assessment of baseline/CDA
  approaches quantify benefits (i.e., noise,
  emissions, fuel burn)

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CDA Prototype - Baseline
DRAFT
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CDA Prototype - Baseline
DRAFT
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CDA Prototype - Baseline
DRAFT
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CDA Prototype - Baseline
DRAFT
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CDA Prototype - Baseline
DRAFT
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CDA Prototype - Summary

• Developed baseline approach modeling methodology
  using LAX as a test-bed
• Expand analysis beyond LAX to help quantify
  necessary scope
• Initiated validation and verification (VV)
  activity to assess new standalone aircraft
  performance modules ability to accurately model
  approach (e.g., level flight)
• - Over 1,000 flight operations quality assurance
  (FOQA) operations from a major European carrier
• - Several hundred (FOQA) operations from various
  U.S. sources, include airlines and NASA test
  aircraft
• CDA implementation to focus on nighttime
  operations at low volume airports at least
  initially

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Schedule
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Closing Remarks

• Continued global leadership in environmentally
  responsible aviation
• Ability to optimize environmental benefits and
  tradeoffs of proposed actions and investment
• More effective RD portfolio management
• Ability to analyze multi-dimensional
  environmental constraints to capacity growth
• Quantify uncertainty associated with complex
  environmental policy decisions (i.e., validation)
• Improved/harmonized data and analysis on
  airport/airspace capacity projects
• Increased capability to address noise and
  emissions interdependencies in the resolution of
  community concerns
• Cost savings for the environmental user
  community, as well as for others (e.g.,
  streamlined noise/emissions analyses with common
  inputs)

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• Questions or comments?

Christopher J. RoofUS DOT Volpe
CenterEnvironmental Measurement and Modeling
Division(617)494-6344roof_at_volpe.dot.gov
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Definitions/Acronyms

• CAEP Committee for Aviation Environmental
  Protection
• DOT Department of Transportation
• EDMS Emissions and Dispersion Modeling System
• FAA Federal Aviation Administration
• ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
• INM Integrated Noise Model
• MAGENTA - Model for Assessing Global Exposure
  form Noise of Transport Airplanes
• NEPA National Environmental Policy Act of
• RVSM Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum
• SAGE System for assessing Aviations Global
  Emissions
• SIP State Implementation Plans