TEAM_Play D4.6 Compilation of Scientific Final Report

Kurzfassung

Modelling of aviation’s sustainability has become more complex and requires broader assessments, including environmental and socio-economic impacts, in order to provide adequate decision support. The US-developed Aviation Environmental Tool Suite (including AEDT, APMT and EDS) reflects this trend by combining different models into a tool suite to allow integrated assessments. The TEAM_Play project (Tool Suite for Environmental and Economic Aviation Modelling for Policy Analysis) is a collaborative project co-funded by the FP7 Research Programme of the European Union which addresses the same requirement. It ran from December 2010 to March 2013 and included 18 partners: DLR, NLR, ENVISA, FOI, MMU, AEA, ANOTEC, Janicke Consulting, CERC, COMOTI, Snecma, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, University of Cambridge, ENAC, TAKS, National Aviation University, and LimitedSkies. Prior to TEAM_Play, numerous individual models existed in Europe, addressing different aspects of air transport and related impact modelling (noise, local / greenhouse gases emissions, but also climate change and economic impacts). Hence, the main focus of TEAM_Play was on creating a modelling framework in which existing European modelling capabilities could be combined in order to support and strengthen the European perspective in the international policy arena. The TEAM_Play tool suite also broadens the scope of potential impact assessments in order to improve awareness of additional effects which are crucial for the aviation development but which were not yet fully addressed in earlier modelling systems. Examples are impact monetisation, third party risk, airport capacity constraints, extended forecast horizon, alignment of local, regional and global assessments. This paper summarises the main project achievements: