One of our research interests within ClimOp is to investigate the potential of combining strategic network planning and climate optimized trajectories in mitigating aviation’s climate impact from both CO2 and non-CO2 effects.
Strategic network planning is based on multiple decisions according to allocating fleet to routes that eventually form the entire […]
Last week, the ClimOP partners Deep Blue and Amigo held a training course on Climate Services to help the Italian Critical Infrastructure adapt and become more resilient to climate emergencies. According to the US Government, critical infrastructures are those organizations “whose assets, systems, and […]
Airports are well-known high energy consumers. As a consequence, each year, the top five European airports emit together more CO2 than the whole of Sweden. But, if we see the glass as half full, airports are also great potential energy savers. The good news is that Europe’s leading airports have […]
Aviation climate effects of non-CO2 emissions depend on location and time of emission. In order to mitigate aviation’s climate effect, the mitigation strategy of climate-optimized trajectories aims to avoid flying through those regions of the atmosphere which are particularly sensitive to aviation emissions (e.g. regions where persistent contrails […]
What if we tell passengers that we might have found the solutions which will allow them to partially reduce the aviation greenhouse gases emissions, but that these new measures might have an impact also on their flight experience? Would they tolerate them […]
The primary purpose of the ClimOP is to develop mitigation strategies for sustainable aviation. Several operational improvements are proposed to reduce the climate impact of aviation. Some of these improvements also have a direct impact on the flight schedules. When assessing the climate impact of these improvements, it […]
Aviation is part of a strong European and global economy, with the aeroplane providing a fast and convenient mode of transport. The number of passengers transported by aircraft has more than doubled between 2005 and 2019 and, after recovery from COVID, has a prospect of growth by a […]
The aviation sector is often seen as a major source of environmental issues such as air pollution, noise pollution, and climate change. In 2005 the share of aviation-related climate change including non-CO2 emission was estimated at 5% of the total impact on greenhouse gases. Since that, the aviation […]
At the beginning of June, ClimOp took part in the 10th Annual EMAC Symposium, where our colleagues from TU Delft presented their work on the analysis of NOx-O3 effects from optimised air traffic using algorithmic climate change functions (aCCFs). The EMAC Symposium is an annual […]
In the next decades, various sectors will play a major role in accelerating climate change. With this article we dug deeper into aviation operations and their effect on global warming, starting from the question: “What is aviation’s impact on the climate, and can something effectively be done about […]