A Study on the Strategy for Departure Aircraft Pushback Control from the Perspective of Reducing Carbon Emissions

Xinhua Zhu, Nan Li, Yu Sun, Hongfei Zhang, Kai Wang and Sang-Bing Tsai
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Xinhua Zhu: College of Economics and Management, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
Nan Li: College of Air Traffic Management, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China, nanli@cauc.edu.cn (N.L.)
Yu Sun: College of Air Traffic Management, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China, nanli@cauc.edu.cn (N.L.)
Hongfei Zhang: Operation and Control Center, Shandong Airlines, Jinan 250014, China
Kai Wang: College of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China
Sang-Bing Tsai: College of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: In order to reduce the taxiing time of departing aircraft and reduce the fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of the aircraft, Shanghai Hongqiao Airport was taken as an example to study the control strategy for aircraft departure. In this paper, the influence of the number of departure aircraft on the runway utilization rate, the takeoff rate, and the departure rate of flight departures under the conditions of airport runway capacity constraints are studied. The influence of factors, such as the number of departure aircraft, the gate position of the aircraft, and the configuration of airport arrival and departure runways, on the aircraft taxiing time for departure is analyzed. Based on a multivariate linear regression equation, a time prediction model of aircraft departure taxiing time is established. The fuel consumption and pollutant emissions of aircraft are calculated. The experimental results show that, without reducing the utilization rate of the runway and the departure rate of flights, implementing a reasonable pushback number for control of departing aircraft during busy hours can reduce the departure taxiing time of aircraft by nearly 32%, effectively reducing the fuel consumption and pollutant emissions during taxiing on the airport surface.

Keywords: aircraft; taxi time; takeoff rate; pushback control; green transportation; carbon emissions; reducing carbon emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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