Design of Hypersonic Airline Networks with respect to Passenger Demand and Flight Routing

Kurzfassung

A methodology is presented to design and assess basic operational aspects of hypersonic airliners. Initially, a database of global airline ticket sales is used to identify promising origin-destination pairings for hypersonic transportation. The encountered demand is pooled to be served by so-called Stratoports that are strategically spread all over the globe. To connect the Stratoports, overwater flight routes are designed with the help of mission simulation and sonic boom carpet computation to identify a noiseoptimal global route network guaranteeing that the sonic boom will not hit on landmasses. This work was done in the context of the European Union project STRATOFLY.