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AirTrak-Carbon Manager – Dealing with Aviation’s Carbon Footprint

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AirTrak Carbon Manager provides airports with a tool that measures carbon output from each phase of aviation activity. Airports can use this information to implement, monitor and measure the success of carbon reducing activities over time.

As carbon reduction largely equates to operationally efficient aviation, implementing measures to minimize aviation carbon output will ultimately provide a more efficient airport.

It is clear that regulatory changes are coming that will necessitate measurement and justification for all carbon output in the aviation space. Strategies will need to be implemented to reduce that carbon; in all likelihood very quickly. Utilizing AirTrak-Carbon Manager ensures you are ready for regulatory compliance.

Why you need to act NOW!

Firstly, unless airports can clearly demonstrate that they are doing everything possible to reduce their impact on climate change, they will be unable to convince stakeholders to support expansion plans that directly conflict with national Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction strategies. Legislation is already in place in some countries calling for the regular reporting of GHG emissions and more widespread adoption will introduce a new compliance issue for airports. Whilst some airports are excluding the aviation emissions in their reported footprint, communities and conservation groups are calling for the aviation footprint to be clearly stated.

Unless airports account for and report their aviation emissions, they will find themselves in the same situation as with noise. It is aircraft that make noise, not airports, but it is airports that have to deal with the community and regulatory reaction and manage the noise impact. CO₂ and other emissions are no different to this.

Secondly, with the current downturn in airline profitability - despite the recent drop (possibly short term) in fuel prices – and the slow and expensive transition to more fuel-efficient aircraft, airlines are placing ever increasing pressure on airports and ANSPs to increase operational efficiency to deliver rapid short-term reductions in fuel burn that goes straight to their bottom line. To support airports’ own revenue streams, airports need to demonstrate to airlines that they are doing all they can to improve efficiencies and their operational superiority.

Why do Airports need AirTrak-Carbon Manager?

AirTrak-Carbon Manager helps airports accurately compute and understand in detail carbon emissions from entire aircraft operations including the LTO cycle and en-route. Providing automatic and continuous assessment, it enables airports to accurately assess their aviation carbon footprint, the effectivenes of carbon reduction measures and to subsequently report trends.

AirTrak-Carbon Manager provides:

Easy Greenhouse Gas assessment: It is totally automatic, web-based and utilises current Lochard infrastructure, ensuring minimum overhead on resources
Continuous assessment: AirTrak-Carbon Manager delivers a steady stream of emission data for every movement in and out of the airport
Accuracy: AirTrak-Carbon Manager computes carbon emissions from the actual flight track of each and every movement, rather than using averages or approximations
Detail: AirTrak-Carbon Manager computes carbon emissions at each stage of the flight, especially stages that airports can directly influence, such as taxiing and holding. Airports can then implement changes and assess their impact
Certified results: AirTrak-Carbon Manager is consistent with International Standards, best practice and will be certified by independent authorities.

Features

AirTrak-Carbon Manager is a hosted service with inherent flexibility as demonstrated in the wide variety of information outputs detailed below. Due to this, there is minimal resource overhead for airport staff e.g. no maintenance required, no need to spend resource time on building inflexible reports.

AirTrak-Carbon Manager measures

CO₂
NO_x
H₂O

within the vicinity of the airport, and en-route.

These Greenhouse Gas emissions are viewable in a range of formats appropriate to airports, and can be filtered by:

Greenhouse Gas
Aircraft Type
Airline
Domestic/International
Phase of aviation cycle

Taxi-out
Take-Off
Climb
TMA out
En-route
TMA in
Hold
Approach
Taxi-in

Additionally the emissions can be viewed by:

Total
Per Movement
Per Passenger
Per Passenger KM; and
TMA efficiency

in a variety of formats, and can be exported to include in reports to stakeholders.

This flexibility allows the airport to view and work with information on aviation carbon emissions in the manner that best suits the airport.

AirTrak Carbon Manager – responsible airports are not constrained airports.

NoiseOffice

As aviation returns to its traditional 5% growth curve, airport managers are faced with increasing pressure to build physical capacity to meet growing demand. In parallel, surrounding communities are insisting on greater environmental transparency and accountability and are becoming more aggressive and litigious in their opposition to airport growth. Limits to growth due to community environmental concerns is often referred to as environmental capacity.

Successful airport managers understand that in order to grow they need to manage both physical capacity and environmental capacity. They understand that a proactive program of impact monitoring, noise abatement initiatives and community outreach is the key.

Achieving these outcomes is complex, requiring a broad range of skills to set strategy, develop and implement noise mitigation initiatives and to engage airport stakeholders. Each of these elements requires the support of a comprehensive information set that quantifies impact, tracks trends, answers adhoc questions and complies with regulatory requirements. Above all, the information must be complete, audited and beyond question. The stakes are too high for errors and omissions to destroy years of carefully earned credibility.

The challenge is that obtaining the information of the right accuracy, the right completeness, on time and in the forms needed is a complex task.

The Traditional Approach

Traditionally airports have approached the challenge by buying and managing their own technology throughout its 15 year lifecycle.

Without an alternative, airports have been forced to build the detailed technical skills required to manage the technology. Energy that should be focused on setting policy, managing noise abatement programs and stakeholder outreach is often diverted to technical management.

Managing the technology lifecycle is complex including:

Market research
Appointing consultants to prepare technical specifications
Running a procurement process and contracting a supplier
Managing a project deployment including consultant costs, internal noise and IT staff costs
Hiring and training noise staff
Contracting and managing system maintenance
Managing a wide variety of parties including the FAA, maintenance contractors, communications and power companies
Contracting additional capabilities when requirements change
System upgrades and refreshes throughout its life
System replacement as it ages

Whilst many airports have taken this approach, it has a number of challenges:

Not enough time to deal with airport stakeholders
Unable to answer questions when needed
Lack of confidence in data
Lack of accountability
Key technical staff leave
System gets out of date
Procurement complexities and delays
Delivery delays & internal cost blowouts
Uncertain ongoing costs

The NoiseOffice™ Approach

NoiseOffice™ is a subscription service providing the information you need to run your airport noise program, including:

Reliable & precise monitoring of aircraft noise impact
Routine reports and investigation tools needed to engage stakeholders
NoiseOffice™ provides the technology and services needed - now and into the future

More specifically, the NoiseOffice™ service provides:

Data integrity & validation, auditability and long term records management
Compliance and routine reporting
Interactive investigation tools
Ongoing access, management, support & refresh of all necessary technology

NoiseOffice™ Benefits

NoiseOffice™ enables airports to contract NoiseOffice ™ data and information services rather than following a path of system procurement, implementation, training, maintenance & ongoing technology refresh. It enables airports to have staff focused stakeholder engagement and removes the need to establish and maintain a staff of technical experts.

NoiseOffice™ delivers:

Better result

Achieve world’s best practice - Focus your staff on engaging stakeholder rather than managing technology

Lower risk

Avoid procurement, deployment and ramp up risk

Guarantee compliance, responsiveness and independent audit trail

Simpler

Remove need for critical technical mass to sustain operations

Remove technology refresh costs and diversion

Lower cost

Reduce cost of operation through staff reduction
Remove procurement & refresh costs

NoiseOffice™ responds to the problems of the traditional approach to airport noise management, providing the information you need to run your airport noise program.

NoiseOffice™ provides a better solution.

NoiseOffice™ Experience

Lochard has been delivering NoiseOffice services to airports since 2004. Currently a range of different services are delivered to AirServices Australia, the BAA London airports, Heathrow / Gatwick and Stansted, Newcastle International airport and Wellington airport in New Zealand. Experience has shown a reduction in the Total Cost of Operation in each case and proven Lochard’s service delivery capability.

Services are delivered through the Lochard Operations Centre in Melbourne operating 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. A Service Delivery Manager is appointed locally to the airport to ensure that the service meets the agreed service level and to act as a contact point within the client's time zone.

NoiseOffice™ Technology

The NoiseOffice™ service is delivered using Lochard’s state of the art ANOMS8 technology running in our 24 hour Class A data center. The onsite data collection server manages the data sources from radar and flight systems and from the noise monitoring terminals. Data is securely streamed to Lochard’s data center where our 24 hour team of experts monitor and manage data collection and processing, data validation and grooming and report generation.

NoiseOffice ensures that you have the information you need to run your noise management program when you need it.

NoiseOffice™ Payment Plans

The NoiseOffice™ service is available on a simple all inclusive monthly payment. NoiseOffice has been proven to deliver savings of 10-15% on the total cost of ownership and operation when compared with the traditional "purchase and operate" model.

Budgetary Estimates

NoiseOffice™ service packages can be tailored to suit the unique requirements of each client.

Deployment Schedule

The deployment of the NoiseOffice™ service is typically completed within 4-6 months of order. The timing is primarily dictated by the selection and approval process for noise monitoring terminal sites.

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