HighlightsWe investigate the environmental effects of incremental and substantial innovations.We find a general statistically significant impact of incremental technical progress.Substantial innovation exhibits a notable effect limited to a per-passenger level.Incentives are needed to sterilize effects of the expected traffic growth.
AbstractThis paper investigates the effects of incremental and substantial innovations on aviation emissions and noise levels among aircraft/engine combinations belonging to the Boeing B737 and the Airbus A320 families. We find a statistically significant impact of incremental technical progress on all environmental externalities both at the flight level and the passenger level. Although substantial innovation is found to have a limited impact at the flight level, a noteworthy positive effect exists on per-passenger externalities. These results point to the need for incentives in aviation technical progress in order to neutralize future negative environmental effects due to the expected traffic growth.
The impact of technology progress on aviation noise and emissions
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice ; 103 ; 525-540
2017-01-01
16 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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