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Many studies focus on either biofuel development or aviation emission schemes, but the aggregated environmental impacts of both biofuels and emission schemes on the commercial aviation in the U.S. system are not clear. This paper develops a multi-actor biofuel model to assess biofuels’ production and combines it with a model for U.S. airlines’ fleet-level emissions to examine impacts from behaviors and strategies of airlines, biorefineries, and farmers. Specifically, the approach combines a multi-actor and optimization approaches by integrating the Fleet-Level Environmental Evaluation Tool (FLEET) and the Multi-Actor Life Cycle Assessment Biofuel Model. This paper then studies two emission schemes: European Union (EU) Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) and the drafted International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Global Market-Based Measure (GMBM) scheme. The simulation shows that, first, an environmental scheme can efficiently regulate total emissions only in a scenario of relatively high fuel and carbon price and, second, the ICAO GMBM policy results not only in lower emissions and but also lower passenger demand than the EU ETS.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC80 Standing Committee on Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies.

01618707

17-05955

English

19p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Air transportation; Airlines; Aviation fuels; Biomass fuels; Emissions trading; Environmental impacts; Life cycle analysis; Optimization; Pollutants; Simulation; Vehicle fleets

Aviation; Energy; Environment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-05955

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 12:24PM