Estimation of aircraft taxi fuel burn using flight data recorder archives

Estimation of aircraft taxi fuel burn using flight data recorder archives

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Article ID: iaor20125177
Volume: 17
Issue: 7
Start Page Number: 532
End Page Number: 537
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Journal: Transportation Research Part D
Authors: ,
Keywords: energy, statistics: empirical
Abstract:

This paper builds a model for estimating the fuel consumption of a taxiing aircraft using flight data recorder information from operational aircraft. The taxi fuel burn is modeled as a linear function of several potential explanatory variables including the taxi time, number of stops, number of turns and number of acceleration events, and the coefficients are estimated using least‐squares regression. The statistical significance of each potential factor is investigated. Our analysis shows that in addition to the taxi time, the number of acceleration events is a significant factor in determining taxi fuel consumption. Since the model parameters are estimated using data from operational aircraft, they provide more accurate estimates of fuel burn than methods that use idealized physical models of fuel consumption based on aircraft velocity profiles, or the baseline fuel consumption estimates provided by the International Civil Aviation Organization.

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