Design of a climate optimized "North Atlantic Organized Track System"

Abstract

At the TUHH Institute of Air Transportation Systems, new concepts for operational procedures are developed. Due to the increasing awareness of society with regard to climate protection as well as high level climate goals ( e.g. Flightpath 2050), besides economical aspects also ecological aspects play an increasing role in the development of new operational procedures. At the moment, the air traffic in the North Atlantic region is organized as "Organized Track System". Based on daily weather forecasts, every day flight routes between Europe an America are defined which are optimized with regard to wind. Within this Thesis an Organized Track System which is optimized with regard to climate impact shall be developed, tested and compared with the current system.