Unlocking Greener Skies: Gabriele Sirtori Advances Sustainable Air Traffic Management

A new ISA research project, supported by Thales, develops an innovative metric to assess and improve the environmental and operational performance of air traffic flows.

Since the beginning of June, Gabriele Sirtori, a postdoctoral researcher at ISA, has been leading a research project aimed at quantifying and attributing operational inefficiencies in air traffic management.

This project, funded by Thales, has the following objectives:

– develop a multidisciplinary operational efficiency metric that takes into account aircraft performance, ATM constraints, and environmental impacts;

– apply this metric to representative pre- and post-COVID periods to quantify and categorize sources of inefficiency, combining economic and environmental indicators with traditional indicators (punctuality, predictability, safety).

In a multidisciplinary team consisting of Laurent Joly and Scott Delbecq (ISAE-SUPAERO) and Xavier Olive (ONERA), this 18-month project will revisit the assessment of inefficiencies in air traffic management, the reduction of which represents a lever for reducing the footprint of air transport.

We look forward to sharing updates on this exciting project.