27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.7.3

AN AIRLINE NETWORK DESIGN APPROACH CONSIDERING ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMICAL TARGETS

M. Braun, A. Koch, K. Dahlmann, V. Grewe, V. Gollnick
DLR, Germany

Keywords: network design, airline schedule planning, climate impact

A network design model generating connections, flight frequencies and passenger routings from scratch is coupled with the simplified chemistry-climate model AirClim. The methodology is applied to airline network design covering global transportation flows while considering the climate impact, leading to cost-efficient operational networks from an ecological and environmental perspective.

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