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Technology Evaluator

CLAIRPORT
Clean Sky 2 – Airport Environmental Impact Assessments
for Fixed-wing Aircraft

D1.1: Assessment-process baseline

Grant Agreement number 777035

Project starting date October 1, 2017
Project duration 51 months

Deliverable leader Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR

Dissemination level Public
Version 1.0-Public
File name CLAIRPORT_D1.1_v1.0-Public.docx

Submission date August 21, 2018

Corresponding author Michel VAN EENIGE
Institution Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR
E-mail Michel.van.Eenige@nlr.nl
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Contributors
Name Organisation
Michel VAN EENIGE Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR
Ronald GROSMANN Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR
Roel HOGENHUIS Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR

Revision table
Version Date Comments
0.1 2018-06-20 Draft for project-internal review
1.0 2018-06-29 Final version
1.0-Public 2018-08-21 Final public version

Approval
CLAIRPORT Project Coordinator Topic Manager
Michel VAN EENIGE (NLR) Alf Junior (DLR)
Date: August 21, 2018 Date: August 21, 2018

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It is the property of NLR, and may be reprinted with approval of NLR and the source properly acknowledged
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Executive summary
Cross-positioned within the Clean Sky 2 Programme, the Technology Evaluator (TE) is a dedicated evaluation
platform. It has the key role of assessing the environmental impact of technologies developed in the Clean
Sky 2 Programme and their level of success towards the ACARE (Advisory Council for Aviation Research and
Innovation in Europe) goals for 2050 regarding sustainable and competitive aviation as well as towards the
Clean Sky 2 environmental targets.
Clean Sky 2 TE carries out evaluations through realistic simulations of flight or mission scenarios (where new
Clean Sky 2 technologies are clustered, defining Clean Sky 2 concept aircraft) at three complementary levels:
 Aircraft level: The environmental performance of a Clean Sky 2 concept aircraft is compared with that of
its reference-technology aircraft (i.e. state-of-the-art aircraft entering into service as from 2014) along the
same trajectory;

 Airport level: The environmental benefits are addressed for airport traffic scenarios in which Clean Sky 2
concept aircraft replace their reference-technology counterparts;
 Air transport system level: The environmental benefits are addressed at worldwide level for air traffic
scenarios in which Clean Sky 2 concept aircraft replace their reference-technology counterparts.
CLAIRPORT (Clean Sky 2 – Airport Environmental Impact Assessments for Fixed-wing Aircraft) is a project
within Clean Sky 2 TE. Its main aim is to quantify the environmental impact at airport level of technologies
developed in the Clean Sky 2 Programme for fixed-wing aircraft. This impact includes noise on ground and
population exposed to noise, and emissions and their contribution to air quality.
The CLAIRPORT consortium is comprised of a single organisation: Stichting Nationaal Lucht- en
Ruimtevaartlaboratorium NLR (Netherlands Aerospace Centre).
The CLAIRPORT project carries out three types of environmental impact assessments:

 For a representative set of European airports by assessing aircraft traffic through simulation;
 For a generic airport by assessing aircraft traffic through simulation;
 For all major European airports at aggregated level by distributing (per airport) aircraft traffic over the
default departure and approach routes and procedures, based on statistical data on the usage of these
routes and procedures.
The CLAIRPORT document D1.11 presents the CLAIRPORT assessment-process baseline. This baseline covers
the assessment scope and process, the main underlying assumptions, and the indicators to address in the
assessments. As a starting point, it adopts the European Environmental Noise Directive (for noise assessments)
and the ICAO Airport Air Quality Manual (for emissions assessments), and capitalises on the one from the
previous Clean Sky TE project for assessments at airport level. The main environmental indicators to address
by the CLAIRPORT project are for:

 Noise
Lden and Lnight contours, and population exposed to and impacted by (significant) Lden and Lnight noise levels.
 Emissions
CO2 and NOX emitted by aircraft engines.

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The core of the CLAIRPORT document D1.1 is kept confidential and available to the Project Officer Clean Sky 2 TE
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This document is produced under the Grant Agreement 777035 — CLAIRPORT — H2020-CS2-CFP05-2016-03
It is the property of NLR, and may be reprinted with approval of NLR and the source properly acknowledged