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Title:

Operational Impact of Electrified Taxiing on Block Time and Relevant Airline Costs

Accession Number:

01550102

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Alternative taxiing is an innovative way of moving aircraft between airport gates and runways without turning the main engines on. Previous studies have mainly focused on the environmental impact analysis of alternative taxiing due to its eco-friendly features. However, the operational assessment of alternative taxiing on airport surface movement and its impact on airline cost has not been deliberated. This study investigates the effect of alternative taxiing on block time and airline cost by applying quantile regression model coupled with sensitivity analysis. Using historical data, the correlations between taxi-time and block time are explored first. By recognizing possible changes of airport surface movement in the future caused by alternative taxiing, different scenarios are created for a sensitivity analysis. Then borrowing results from other related studies, the changes of scheduled block time and eventually the impact on airline costs (e.g., fleet utilization and labor costs) for different scenarios are evaluated. The proposed approach in this study offers an innovative integration of analysis methods to derive a framework that isolates taxi-time impacts on the block time and evaluating consequent airline cost. This study quantifies the impact of alternative taxiing on airline operational and financial performance and offers decision support to potential users and other stakeholders by understanding the values of the emerging technologies from airlines’ perspective.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AV000 Aviation Group. Alternate title: Operational Impact of Alternative Taxiing on Block Time and Relevant Airline Cost.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-3660

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Guo, Rui
Zhang, Yu
Wang, Qing

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3660

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:13PM