Imagine if planes could avoid creating those long white streaks in the sky that trap heat like a blanket. This work creates a toolkit to help flights avoid these areas and reduce their warming effect. It also helps airports prepare for hotter days that make it harder for planes to take off.
Aviation faces a double crisis: it contributes to global warming through emissions and contrails, while simultaneously suffering from extreme weather that disrupts airport operations and aircraft performance.
A toolset for monitoring aviation's climate impact and assessing sector resilience. This includes seasonal contrail maps and take-off distance statistics for 30 airports.
If you are an airline carrier dealing with high carbon footprints and climate regulations — this project developed a toolset that quantifies the climate impact of flights and identifies how to reduce non-CO2 effects like contrails.
If you are an airport operator dealing with increasing heatwaves that affect aircraft performance — this project developed statistics for take-off distance requirements at 30 ECAC airports to improve infrastructure resilience.
If you are a software provider dealing with the need for greener routing — this project developed seasonal maps of contrail occurrence and climate metrics that can be integrated into flight path optimization.
Based on available project data, the specific commercial price of the toolkit is not mentioned; however, the project received an EU contribution of EUR 659,000 for its development.
The project is currently in the phase of translating user needs into technical requirements and producing scientific advancements, suggesting it is not yet at full industrial scale.
Based on available project data, there is no specific information regarding the licensing terms or patent status of the developed toolset.
The project period runs from 2023-09-01 to 2026-02-28, indicating that final results and tools will be available by early 2026.
The project has already analyzed data for 30 ECAC airports to produce statistics on take-off distances required for higher temperatures.
The consortium consists of 5 partners across 4 countries (BE, DE, IT, UK). It shows a strong industrial lean with a 40% industry ratio, including 2 SMEs and 2 universities, indicating a balanced approach between academic research and commercial application.
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