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Partnership for Air Transportation Noise & Emission Reduction
PARTNER projects

Projects — by project number

As our name implies, PARTNER is an academia, industry, and government collaborative that researches solutions for existing and anticipated aviation-related noise and emissions problems. We conduct basic research and engineering development, and prototype solutions.

The knowledge and capability gained from this research provides critical information to government decision-makers and industry senior executives to address environmental impacts, which may represent the single greatest challenge to the continued growth and prosperity of civil aerospace.

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Projects

Project 1 | Low Frequency Noise Study (project completed)

Lead investigators: Anthony Atchley, Kathleen Hodgdon

Project 2 | Source Emission and Propagation

Lead investigator: Victor Sparrow

Project 3 | Valuation and Trade-offs of Policy Options

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 4 | Continuous Descent Arrival

Lead investigator: John-Paul Clarke

Project 5 | En Route Traffic Optimization to Reduce Environmental Impact

Lead investigator: John-Paul Clarke

Project 6 | Land Use Management and Airport Controls (project completed)

Lead investigator: Kai Ming Li

Project 8 | Sonic Boom Mitigation

Lead investigator: Patricia Davies

Project 9 | Measurement of Emissions

Lead investigator: Philip D. Whitefield

Project 10 | Outreach

Lead investigator: Kathleen Hodgdon

Project 11 | Health Impacts of Aviation-Related Air Pollutants

Lead investigator: Jonathan I. Levy, John D. Spengler

Project 12 | Emissions Atmospheric Impacts

Lead investigators: Mark Jacobson, Sanjiva Lele

Project 13 | Lateral Alignment in Complex Systems (project completed)

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 14 | Environmental Design Space

Lead investigators: Michelle Kirby, Dimitri Mavris

Project 15 | Aircraft Impacts on U.S. Local and Regional Air Quality (project completed)

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 16 | Investigation of Aviation Emissions Air Quality Impacts

Lead investigators: Adel Hanna, Sarav Arunachalam

Project 17 | Alternative Fuels

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 18 | Reduced Vertical Separation Minimums (project completed)

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 19 | Health Effects of Aircraft Noise

Lead investigator: Patricia Davies

Project 20 | Emissions Characteristics of Alternative Aviation Fuels

Lead investigator: Philip Whitefield

Project 21 | Airport Surface Movement Optimization

Lead investigator: Hamsa Balakrishnan

Project 22 | Objective Measures to Support Airspace Management

Lead investigators: John-Paul Clarke, Eric Feron

Project 23 | Network Restructuring Scenarios for ATO Forecasts

Lead investigator: Daniel DeLaurentis

Project 24 | Noise Exposure Response: Annoyance

Lead investigators: Patricia Davies, Victor Sparrow

Project 25 | Noise Exposure Response: Sleep Disturbance

Lead investigator: Patricia Davies

Project 26 | Sound Structural Transmission

Lead investigator: Kai Ming Li

Project 27 | Environmental Cost-benefit Analysis of Ultra Low Sulfur Jet Fuels

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 28 | Environmental Cost-benefit Analysis of Alternative Jet Fuels

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 29 | Emissions Characteristics of Modern/Future Aviation Sources

Lead investigator: PIan Waitz

Project 30| Metrics for an Aviation CO2 Standard

Lead investigator: Ian Waitz

Project 31 | Economic and Environmental Effects of the Introduction of a Cap-And-Trade Policy in Aviation

Lead investigators: Ian Waitz, John Reilly

Project 32 | Near-Term Operational Changes

Lead investigators: Karen Marais, R. John Hansman, T. Reynolds

Project 33 | Isotopic Analysis of Airport Air Quality

Lead investigator: Mark Thiemens

Project 34 | International Collaborative Emissions Studies

Lead investigator: Philip Whitefield

Project 35 | Open Rotor Noise Impact On Airport Communities

Lead investigator: Jimmy Tai

Project 36 | EDS Capability Demonstration for Assessing the CLEEN Program

Lead investigators: Michelle Kirby, Dimitri Mavris

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