The report describes the development of a database of fuel burn and emissions from projected High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) fleets that reflect actual airlines' networks, operational requirement, and traffic flow as operated by simulated world wide airlines for Mach 1.6, 2.0, and 2.4 HSCT configurations. The first scenario represented a manufacturing upper limit producible HSCT fleet availability by year 2015. The second scenario focused on the number of units that can minimally be produced by the year 2015. The airlines network was extracted from the actual networks of 21 major world airlines. All the routes were screened for suitability for HSCT operations. The route selection criteria included great circle distance, difference between flight path distance and great circle distance to avoid overland operations, and potential flight frequency.
High-Speed Civil Transport Forecast: Simulated Airlines Scenarios for Mach 1.6, Mach 2.0, and Mach 2.4 Configurations for Year 2015
1996
182 pages
Report
No indication
English
Air Pollution & Control , Air Transportation , Aeronomy , Information Systems , Airglow , Commercial aircraft , Data bases , Exhaust emission , Supersonic transports , Fuel consumption , Mach number , Airline operations , Civil aviation , Combustion , Environmental control , Flight paths , Forecasting , High speed , Ozone depletion