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Watch Live: The seminars are held in the James L. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters and broadcast live on NASA TV (select the "Education Channel" from drop-down box) on the date of each seminar.
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Aviation and the Environment: Managing the Challenge of Growth
Date: April 8, 2008, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Presented By: Carl Burleson (Director, Federal Aviation Administration Office of Environment and Energy)
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Evening traffic at New York JFK airport.
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Aircraft noise and local air quality concerns are strong constraints on
airspace system capacity. These constraints have prompted cancellation,
delays, and down-scaling of plans to expand airport capacity over the
past decades. Looking forward, we see more environmental challenges to
capacity expansion, including climate change issues.
Environmental issues increasingly are shaping the growth of the industry
internationally. They must be addressed adequately to enable and ensure
sustained growth in aviation.
There must be a commitment to reduce significant impacts from aviation
noise and local air quality emissions, limit or reduce aviation
greenhouse gas emissions, and develop sufficient scientific
understanding and metrics to deal with other local air quality and
climate issues related to aviation.
The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, plan has
built-in potential to produce substantial environmental gains through
the introduction of new aircraft and new aircraft technologies, and with
new air traffic management procedures that can reduce airport noise and
low altitude emissions, and save fuel -- leading to further emissions
reductions.
This seminar will detail a strategy for:
- Improving the science behind predicting and mitigating aviation's
environmental impacts for building the next generation of tools and
models to improve regulation
- Developing and implementing operational procedures that reduce
aviation's environmental footprint
- Accelerating development of new technologies and fuels
- Addressing policy questions about long-term goals, improved
regulation, and system operating changes
NASA's role in model development, aircraft technology work, procedures
evaluation, and alternative fuels research is essential to NextGen's
success in meeting its environmental goals and providing sufficient air
transportation capacity for the United States in the future.
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