Convinced that higher education and research are major levers in the transition to a sustainable society, ISAE-SUPAERO is placing environmental issues at the heart of its commitment, and is mobilising its teaching skills and scientific expertise to help invent the low-carbon air transport of tomorrow. AeroMAPS, a unique academic tool, is a major contribution to this effort.
Aimed at all stakeholders in the aviation sector, this tool enables a detailed assessment of the environmental impact of aviation transition scenarios. Users can define the scenarios for which they wish to analyse the impacts by playing on the sector’s transition levers: introduction of new types of aircraft and fleet renewal, use of new fuels (biofuels, hydrogen, etc.), air traffic growth rate, etc. On the basis of the hypotheses chosen, AeroMAPS evaluates the corresponding CO2 emissions, but also the other climatic impacts (notably linked to condensation trails) and the associated consumption of energy resources (biomass, electricity).
AeroMAPS was developed by a team of ISAE-SUPAERO researchers and doctoral students led by Thomas Planès, Scott Delbecq and Antoine Salgas. It is the result of three years of development, and is an enhanced version of the CAST tool, which will be published in open-access in 2021. The AeroMAPS code is published as open source, so that the scientific community can test it and follow and participate in its development. In addition, a simplified graphical interface will be made available to facilitate its basic use.
In parallel with this publication, efforts to enhance AeroMAPS are continuing within the framework of the Institute for Sustainable Aviation (ISA), which brings together seven partners from a wide range of disciplines around ISAE-SUPAERO. Ultimately, the researchers aim to use AeroMAPS to offer a multidisciplinary assessment of aviation transition scenarios for society. The tool is designed to model, with several levels of fidelity, the different components of air transport, the associated impacts and their many interactions. New developments are underway to model the costs of transition (alternative fuels, new aircraft) and integrate the effects of regulatory tools (EU-ETS, CORSIA). Over the coming year, a wide range of disciplines (engineering, environment, economics, regulation, sociology, etc.) will be integrated into the project.
Find out more about AeroMAPS here: https://aeromaps.isae-supaero.fr
The AeroMAPS code is available here: https://github.com/AeroMAPS/AeroMA
ISA: Institute for sustainable aviation
Making the transition that will make aviation compatible with the Paris agreements is a challenge that combines technical, economic and social dimensions. It is not just a challenge for engineers and technicians, but also a societal, economic, financial, legal and geopolitical issue that cannot be resolved by a purely techno-scientific approach.
To meet this immense and exciting challenge, a fruitful dialogue must be established between the physical sciences and the human and social sciences. By founding the Institute for Sustainable Aviation (ISA), an interdisciplinary research structure, ISAE-SUPAERO and its partners intend to give life to this dialogue and strengthen the link between science and society.
Created in Toulouse, the European capital of aeronautics, the ISA brings together eight partner institutions: ISAE-SUPAERO, ENAC, Météo-France, CERFACS, Toulouse School of Economics, TBS Education, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès and Université Toulouse Capitole.
Its aim is to address the issue of the sustainability of aviation through collaborative research at the interface of the social sciences and humanities, financial and industrial economics, aerospace engineering and flight operations, transport and environmental laws and regulations, energy and atmospheric physics.
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