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Aircraft noise and communication

18 February 2014Ruud Ummels, To70 Aviation Australia

3rd ACI Airport Environmental Seminar

About To70

Frankfurt

Shanghai

Bangkok

Newcastle

Medellin

The Hague

Mission and vision

Enable aviation and society to cope with current and future challenges for airport and airspace operations, by delivering outstanding research and consultancy services, profitably.

Become the most preferred global aviation consultant in airport and airspace operations.

To70 delivers high-quality consulting and research services to the global aviation community. Since our inception in 2000, we have built a reputation on integrity, drive, knowledge and innovation.

To70’s experts have extensive experience in the aviation sector.

Our experts are renowned for their lateral thinking resulting in innovative and cost effective outcomes. Together with clients, To70 works to provide independent advice, helping them

identify and analyse problems, recommending solutions and assisting with their subsequent implementation.

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The services we provide

Airport strategic planning• Airport master planning

• Demand and growth forecasting• Feasibility studies

• Airport layout design• Terminal design and optimisation

Aviation impacts and policy development• Management plans

• Environmental impact studies;

noise and emission modelling

• Design and evaluation of noise abatement procedures• Airport Carbon Accreditation

Aviation communication

• Visualisations and animations

•A D S

-B data tracking and visualisation• Complaint inventory and analyses

• General communication support

Airspace (re-)design and optimisation• Airport and airspace capacity analyses

• Airport and airspace design and operation• PANS OPS procedure design

• ATM simulation

Aviation safety • Safety management systems

• Compliance to regulation and standards• Airspace risk modelling

• Incident investigation

Route development and network optimisation

• N e t w o r k s t r a t e g i e s• Route development and optimisation

• Business cases

• Operational implementation

An overview of our clients

Frankfurt

Shanghai

Bangkok

Newcastle

Medellin

Schiphol

The experience gained from airports such as Schiphol, Frankfurt

and Sydney has increasingly been applied to international areas. Over the past 13 years we’ve over 700 projects across six continents working at airports in Australia, Europe, South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America.

Heathrow

Madrid

Stockholm

ZurichBrussels

JeddahAbu Dhabi

DubaiNew Delhi

Mumbai

Bangalore

Singapore

Taoyuan

Kunming

ChengduNarita

CAA Indonesia

Sydney

Gold CoastBrisbane

MelbourneLaunceston

Adelaide

Cairns

Perth

Karratha

Auckland

Christchurch

Cape TownJohannesburg

Vancouver ICAO

Incheon

Saba/St. Eustatius

Bonaire

Moscow

Entebbe

CAA Morocco

CAA Israel

CAA Syria

Cebu

Riga

Zhengzhou

Phuket

Bogota

Guangzhou

Urumqi

Chiang Mai

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Noise modelling inputs

Noise modelling – an overview

ModelInputs Outputs

Practitioner Modeller End-user

Scenario Database Contour

- Airport

- Aircraft

- Traffic

- Routeings-Weights- Procedures

-Geophysical-Meteorology

- Acoustic

- Performance

- Area

- Population

- Other

- Impact

ECAC Doc 29 3rd Edition, Standard Method of Computing Noise Contours around Civil Airports

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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

� Experimented with new regulation since Nov 2010

�I n s t e a d o f n o i s e l e v e l s / c o n t o u r s ; a g r e e m e n t o n t h e u s e o frunways and flight tracks

� Traffic prognosis

� Number of movements

� Time of operation

� Origin/destination

� Aircraft types

� Usage prognosis

� Monitoring of usage / Evaluation

� 3 year forecast of usage

Traffic prognosis 2014 – aircraft movements

day evening night early

morning

arrivals

departures

Summer

Winter

Summer

Winter

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Traffic prognosis 2014 – aircraft types

Small business

jets

Fokker 70

Embraer

ERJ145/J135

Bombardier CRJ

Embraer 190/195

Fokker 100

BAE 146

B 737-300

B 737-400, -800, -

900

A318, A319,

A320, A321

B 757-200

A330

B 767-300

B 777-200

MD-11

B 747-200, -300, -

400

B 777-300

A380

Maximum take-offweight in tonnes

Traffic prognosis 2014 –Origin/Destination

North America

Great Britain

Latin America

South Europe

Africa

South America

East Europe

Middle East

Asia and Australia

Far East

Scandinavia

Russia

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Usage prognosis 2014 – Airport layout

Usage prognosis 2014 – Operating modes

PreferenceArrivals Departures

A1 A2 D1 D2

1 06 (36R) 36L (36C)

2 18R (18C) 24 (18L)

3 06 (36R) 06 (36L)

4 27 (18R) 24 (18L)

5 36R (36C) 36L (36C/09)

6 18R (18C) 18L (18C/24)

Visual Conditions: good• view at least 5,000 m

• cloud base at least 1,000 ft

• in daylight period

Visual Conditions: good or marginal • view at least 1,500 m

• cloud base at least 300 ft

Preference Arrivals Departures

1 06 36L

2 18R 24

3 36C 36L

4 18R 18C

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Usage prognosis 2014 – 1st Preference

One less runway Departure peak Additional runway Arrival peak

Usage prognosis 2014 – Runway usage

departures arrivals

spread average

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Usage prognosis 2014 – Flight tracks

Period 0600 – 2300 hours Period 0600 – 2300 hours

Noise impact prognosis

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Brisbane Airport Experience Centre

Noise modelling outputs

National Airports Safeguarding Framework

� Australian Noise Exposure Forecast (ANEF)

� Where and what type of development can take place around airports

� To determine which buildings were eligible for insulation

� For technical assessments of airport operating options

� As a tool for providing information to the public

� Location and usage information for flight paths

� S i n g l e e v e n t n o i s e c o n t o u r s� ‘Number Above’ noise metric

� 20 event N70 contour,

� 50 event N65 contour

� 100 event N60 contour

� 3, 6 and 12 event N60 contour for night time (10pm to 6am)

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Brisbane Airport Experience Centre

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Melbourne Airport Noise Tool

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Noise visualisations

Noise visualisations

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