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This project designed a decision-support prototype tool for managing flight delay costs in the pre-departure and airborne phases of a flight. The tool trades accelerated fuel burn and emissions charges against 'cost of time'. Costs for all major 'cost of time' components, by three cost scenarios, twelve aircraft types and by magnitude of delay are derived.
Short-term opportunities for saving fuel and/or reducing environmental impacts are identified. A shift in ATM from managing delay minutes to delay cost is also supported.
Summary papers from 2007 and 2008 may be found below, along with a selection of supporting TDDs (technical discussion documents).
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This project started in January, 2007, and finished in December, 2008.
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Our partners/contractors were:
- the Transport Studies Group at Westminster University (UK), the main contractor;
- the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College (UK), a sub-contractor; and
- Lufthansa Systems Aeronautics (Germany).
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