AirTrak-Carbon Manager enables airports to easily assess and track aircraft carbon emissions.

Without accurate knowledge of aircraft emissions, managing and reporting on an airport’s overall carbon footprint is impossible. Established methods, using average times in mode, have been shown to over-estimate emissions by up to 30%.

Lochard’s AirTrak-Carbon Manager uses actual flight track data. This delivers a very accurate assessment of aircraft emissions, broken into individual flight phases to reveal emissions specific to each segment e.g. taxiing or time in holding zone.

AirTrak-Carbon Manager helps airports accurately compute and view carbon emissions from the entire aircraft operation including the Landing and Take Off (LTO) cycle and enroute. By receiving continuous automated information, airports can accurately assess the impact of carbon reduction measures and report emissions trends. AirTrak-Carbon Manager provides detailed information for environmental reporting to airport stakeholders and input to planning decisions.

AirTrak-Carbon Manager is Lochard’s first subscription module directed at aircraft emissions after several successful noise management modules. It is currently undergoing trials at Stockholm Arlanda airport in Sweden; one of the internationally recognised leaders in airport carbon efficiency.

“This is a new area for Lochard and it is exciting to help airports to clearly understand the extent of the aircraft emissions that they can guide and influence.” said Phil Stollery Lochard’s Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing.

“We believe that AirTrak-Carbon Manager is the first aircraft emissions assessment tool that can deliver such accuracy and detail, coupled with the automation and usability needed from a business oriented application. It enables carbon assessment to move from an infrequent scientific exercise into the core of day to day business operations.”

AirTrak-Carbon Manager continues Lochard’s approach of developing application focused web-based modules, each providing key support to airports. AirTrak-Carbon Manager is the fourth such module after recent successful launches of WebTrak-Display, WebTrak-Investigate and WebTrak-FlyQuiet. The modules leverage existing Lochard infrastructure in client airports. As a result they are low cost and rapidly deployable.

Lochard helps over 130 airports manage their environmental impact worldwide. Currently more than 30 airports are using the new Lochard subscription modules, including Heathrow, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sydney.

Download the AirTrak-Carbon Manager flyer.