Schiphol and partners have started conducting follow-up sustainable taxiing tests. At the airport, a KLM plane drove from Schiphol-Centre to and from a platform near the Zwanenburgbaan Runway with its engines switched off. This way of taxiing can significantly reduce fuel consumption and therefore CO2, nitrogen and ultrafine particle emissions. This trial run marks the start of various tests with the two semi-robotic taxiing systems that Schiphol purchased earlier this year.
TaxiBots will be deployed at the airport over the next year and a half. The TaxiBots will take some planes to a location further away from the gate and en route to the runway to start their engines there. Further operational experience with this vehicle will be gained by carrying out pushbacks and by towing empty aircraft.
Polderbaan preparations According to the original plan, continual test drives to and from the Polderbaan Runway were to have been carried out at the moment. The plan has been modified and now studies, simulations and tests will be carried out over the next eighteen months and as much experience as possible will be gained with the TaxiBots. The aim is to test, introduce and scale up new procedures for sustainable taxiing to and from the Polderbaan, among other locations, from mid-2024.
Sustainable taxiing as standard Schiphol is striving for sustainable taxiing at the airport in 2030, together with Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL), KLM, Transavia, Corendon Dutch Airlines, TUIfly and ground handling companies dnata, Swissport, Viggo, KLM Ground Services and TaxiBot provider Smart Airport Systems. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management is supporting the initiative. The tests are part of European initiatives within the framework of the ALBATROSS-consortium and its successor: HERON. These subsidy projects aim to make aviation more sustainable.
TLD TaxiBot pictures reproduced with kind permission from Royal Schiphol Group.
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The Australian Airports Association, (AAA), National Conference will showcase diverse and far-reaching repercussions the airport industry will face over the next decade and focus on challenges and risks facing the industry, sustainability, the customer experience, technology and more.
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TLD is proud to be heavily involved with a new project developed in partnership with Real Aviation and BH Airport. The project involves an investment of more than BRL 30 million and will exclusively serve 100% of the company’s flights in Belo Horizonte until the end of 2023.
The partnership’s objective is to assist the LATAM Group on its journey to be a 100% carbon neutral company by 2050. The volume of CO2 that will no longer be emitted corresponds to the equivalent consumption of diesel-powered equipment
This week, LATAM becomes the first airline in Brazil to use 100% electricity in ground operations. This is because, as of this Tuesday (28/6), the Ground Handling* operation of at least 50% of the company’s flights in Belo Horizonte/Confins (the equivalent of 10 daily flights currently) will be completely carried out by equipment powered by electricity instead of diesel exclusively. The initiative will make LATAM stop emitting 114 tons of CO2 in the next 12 months at the Minas Gerais airport. This volume corresponds to the CO2 equivalent consumption of diesel-powered equipment used to service your operation today.
The pilot project received an investment of more than R$30 million and was developed in partnership with Real Aviation and BH Airport. The action is fully connected with the renewed Sustainability strategy of the LATAM group, announced in 2021. In the Climate Change pillar, the group aims to be a 100% carbon neutral company by 2050.
“This is a clear step by LATAM towards more sustainable aviation. We are already taking concrete steps at this time and in this direction, to prioritize partners with solutions that contribute to the reduction of the carbon footprint. Our commitment is to move forward so that we can expand this and other initiatives to all the airports we fly to”, says Jerome Cadier, CEO of LATAM Brazil.
