Airport Capacity Consequences Leveraging Aviation Integrated Modelling

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

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Publications

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Schäfer A (2018) Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft in Nature Energy

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Synodinos A (2018) Framework for Predicting Noise-Power-Distance Curves for Novel Aircraft Designs in Journal of Aircraft

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Torija A (2018) Aircraft classification for efficient modelling of environmental noise impact of aviation in Journal of Air Transport Management

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Torija A (2019) On the assessment of subjective response to tonal content of contemporary aircraft noise in Applied Acoustics

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Torija A (2018) Airport noise modelling for strategic environmental impact assessment of aviation in Applied Acoustics

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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 The airport noise tool now exists in two forms known as SINE and RANE. SINE has been included in the latest release of the Aviation Integrated Modelling (AIM) tool which is publically available. In addition SINE is being used in collaboration with the Sustainable Aviation group to update the UK Aviation Noise impact assessment which will be used in the update to the SA Noise Roadmap due for publication late 2019 or early 2020. The RANE tool has now been extended to enhance applicability. It is now capable of fast computation for multi-runway, multi-directional airports. It is currently being linked to population affected tools. and is being extended to novel aircraft types such as Urban Aviation.
First Year Of Impact 2018
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.