Projects (by Focus)
As our name implies, PARTNER is an academic, 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.
Note that some projects appear under multiple headings.
Noise
- Project 1 | Low Frequency Noise Study (completed)
- Project 2 | Source Emission and Propagation
- Project 8 | Sonic Boom Mitigation
- Project 10 | Outreach
- Project 19 | Health Effects of Aircraft Noise (completed)
- Project 24 | Noise Exposure Response: Annoyance
- Project 25 | Noise Exposure Response: Sleep Disturbance
- Project 26 | Sound Transmission Indoors — Integrated Windows (completed)
- Project 35 | Open Rotor Noise Impact On Airport Communities (completed)
- Project 38 | Sound Transmission Indoors – Study of Whole Houses
- Project 44 | Aviation-Related Noise Effects on the Elderly
Interdependencies and policy assessment
- Project 3 | Valuation and Trade-offs of Policy Options
- Project 13 | Lateral Alignment in Complex Systems (completed)
- Project 14 | Environmental Design Space
- Project 28 | Environmental cost-benefit analysis of alternative jet fuels (completed)
- Project 30 | Metrics for an Aviation CO2 Standard
- Project 31 | Understanding the Relationship Between Aviation Economics and the Broader Economy (completed)
- Project 36 | EDS Capability Demonstration for Assessing the CLEEN Program
- Project 42 | Development and Evaluation of Climate Metrics
- Project 48 | Development of a Distributed Approach to System Level Uncertainty Quantification
Operations
- Project 4 | Continuous Descent Arrival (completed)
- Project 5 | En Route Traffic Optimization to Reduce Environmental Impact (completed)
- Project 6 | Land Use Management and Airport Controls (completed)
- Project 18 | Reduced Vertical Separation Minimums (completed)
- Project 21 | Airport Surface Movement Optimization
- Project 22 | Objective Measures to Support Airspace Management (completed)
- Project 23 | Network Restructuring Scenarios for ATO Forecasts (completed)
- Project 32 | Near-Term Operational Changes
- Project 39 | Terminal Area Aircraft Simulation Tools Evaluation
- Project 40 | Continuous Descent Arrival National Operational Feasibility (completed)
- Project 43 | Analysis of Missions Specifications
Emissions
- Project 9 | Measurement of Emissions
- Project 11 | Health Impacts of Aviation-Related Air Pollutants
- Project 12 | Emissions' Atmospheric Impacts
- Project 15 | Aircraft impact on U.S. local and regional air quality (completed)
- Project 16 | Investigation of aviation emissions air quality impacts
- Project 20 | Emissions Characteristics of Alternative Aviation Fuels
- Project 29 | Emissions Characteristics of Modern/Future Aviation Sources
- Project 30 | Metrics for an Aviation CO2 Standard
- Project 31 | Understanding the Relationship Between Aviation Economics and the Broader Economy (completed)
- Project 33 | Isotopic Analysis of Airport Air Quality
- Project 34 | International Collaborative Emissions Studies (completed)
- Project 37 | Non-volatile particulate matter – SAE E31 Aerospace Recommended Practice research issues
- Project 41 | Aircraft Black Carbon Emissions (completed)
- Project 42 | Development and Evaluation of Climate Metrics
- Project 45 | Aviation System Air Quality Performance Analysis
- Project 46 | Aviation System Global Climate Performance Analysis
Alternative Fuels
- Project 17 | Alternative Fuels (completed)
- Project 20 | Emissions Characteristics of Alternative Aviation Fuels
- Project 27 | Environmental cost-benefit analysis of ultra low sulfur jet fuels (completed)
- Project 28 | Environmental cost-benefit analysis of alternative jet fuels (completed)
- Project 47 | Alternative Jet Fuel Sustainability

