Airspace Design and Environmental Analysis

Multi-Objective Analysis for Jointly Reducing Noise
and Emissions via ATM/Aircraft Systems (ENTIRE)

Overview
Leveraging extensive experience from the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) environmental analysis, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Airspace Re-design projects, as well as National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) environmental modeling and decision-aid projects, Metron Aviation will develop a software system to enable balanced noise and emissions reductions by integrated Air Traffic Management (ATM)/aircraft systems. The proposed capability, Emissions and Noise Total Impact REduction (ENTIRE) is innovative in the following ways:

(1) It spans the spectrum of environmental impacts, encompassing both noise and local air-quality;
(2) It conjoins both ATM and aircraft-based activities for this management of impact; and
(3) It provides a tractable algorithmic approach to achieving specific noise and emissions impact reduction goals.

ENTIRE provides integrated noise and emissions reductions via combined ATM and aircraft tactical activities.

The proposed capability directly supports the next-generation capabilities and environmentally friendly ATM capability sought under Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Subtopic A3.01 - Next Generation ATM Systems, directly addressing integrated ATM/aircraft systems that reduce noise and emissions.

Product Benefits
Noise and emissions impact Identifies relative contributions of each aspect of ATM and aircraft operations to reductions Comparison of subsequent solutions towards meeting specific impact reduction

Benefits
Key features of the Metron Aviation approach include:

• a broad mixture of ATM/aircraft operational activities (routing, scheduling, fleet mix, taxi times, profiles, etc.);
• multiple integrated representation of impact-reduction objectives, from a single monetized metric for noise and emissions
• multi-component metrics that address different aspects of noise and emissions impacts

Overall, this innovation provides a means to identify mixed ATM/aircraft operational activities that can lead to significant reductions in both noise and air-quality impacts, as shown in the figure.

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