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Airport Capacity Consequences Leveraging Aviation Integrated Modelling

Lead Research Organisation: University of Southampton
Department Name: Faculty of Engineering & the Environment

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Torija A.J. (2018) Representative-in-class vehicles for fleet-level aviation noise analysis in 25th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2018, ICSV 2018: Hiroshima Calling

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Torija AJ (2017) A model for the rapid assessment of the impact of aviation noise near airports. in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

 
Description Two versions of the airport noise tool have been developed. The tool now known as SINE (Single Index Noise Evaluator) essentially provides an estimate of noise contour area and is included in the publically available AIM suite of programs. Last year RANE (Rapid Aviation Noise Evaluator), which provides airport noise contours very rapidly and within 10% accuracy was benchmarked against INM and extended from single runway airports to linear multiple runways. This year it has been extended to apply to all major airports. It was also used in a study currently on electric aircraft (reported at a EPSRC/ATI workshop in 2017 and an SA sponsored workshop). The supplementary tool to estimate Noise Power Distance curves for novel aircraft has also been reported and will enhance RANE by allowing estimation of community impact of future technological changes with greater accuracy. The main developments sought in this programme are complete and only confirming studies are left to be completed.
Exploitation Route As a stand alone tool this will be useful for a variety od stakeholders and use by the Sustainable Aviation group is confirmed. Further discussions are planned with other interested stakeholders.
Sectors Aerospace

Defence and Marine

Communities and Social Services/Policy

Environment

Transport

 
Description Methods developed within the project have been applied in making estimates of future aircraft noise to non-academic bodies. Particularly the FlyZero consortium and the Sustainable Aviation industrial grouping in support of their revised Noise Roadmap (to be published May 2024).
First Year Of Impact 2023
Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Environment
Impact Types Societal

Policy & public services

 
Description Future Flight Challenge (Phase 2) - Project NAPKIN
Amount £1,370,734 (GBP)
Funding ID 71165 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2020 
End 04/2022
 
Title RANE -- Rapid Aviation Noise Evaluator 
Description RANE is able to quickly assess noise contours around airports utilizing a novel prediction methodology developed in the project. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact RANE is useful in itself as an independent tool that accurately predicts noise contours. In follow on projects it is being coupled with other tools that allow systematic estimation of noise from future aircraft designs. 
 
Title Data for: AIRCRAFT CLASSIFICATION FOR EFFICIENT MODELLING OF ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE IMPACT OF AVIATION 
Description  
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/ht4c4k5bgs/1
 
Title Data for: AIRPORT NOISE MODELLING FOR STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF AVIATION 
Description Data for figures of the paper: AIRPORT NOISE MODELLING FOR STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF AVIATION. This paper analyses the applicability and discusses the unavoidable limitations and advantages of existing simplified airport noise models within the context of multi-disciplinary strategic environmental impact assessment of aviation. Simplified airport noise models satisfying the above requirements and developed to be coupled with technology evaluators, e.g. Rapid Aviation Noise Evaluator (RANE) model [Torija et al., 2017], can inform policy decisions about which future technology platforms would be likely to be the most environmental efficient when considered holistically. Based on the specific conditions tested, the straight-out trajectory assumption and the use of generic aircraft types seems valid approximations for computing aviation noise outputs. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/bybj992pcd/1
 
Title Data for: AIRPORT NOISE MODELLING FOR STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF AVIATION 
Description Data for figures of the paper: AIRPORT NOISE MODELLING FOR STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF AVIATION. This paper analyses the applicability and discusses the unavoidable limitations and advantages of existing simplified airport noise models within the context of multi-disciplinary strategic environmental impact assessment of aviation. Simplified airport noise models satisfying the above requirements and developed to be coupled with technology evaluators, e.g. Rapid Aviation Noise Evaluator (RANE) model [Torija et al., 2017], can inform policy decisions about which future technology platforms would be likely to be the most environmental efficient when considered holistically. Based on the specific conditions tested, the straight-out trajectory assumption and the use of generic aircraft types seems valid approximations for computing aviation noise outputs. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/bybj992pcd/2