GreenLandings Initiative

Teterboro GreenLandings® Initiative

 

For over four decades, airport delays, congestion, noise and excess CO2 have been a huge problem. Yet even with hard work and the investment of hundreds of billions of dollars, the desired improvements continue to elude us.

 

Ongoing important work like NextGen, Sesar and sustainable fuels represent long-term solutions.

 

But the business jet operators, airlines and local communities need solutions now, to rapidly reduce their environmental and noise footprints.

And contrary to conventional wisdom, ATC is not the primary roadblock.

Recognizing this, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issued a call to action, teaming with ATH Group on a new approach – GreenLandings®. The goal of the Teterboro GreenLandings® Initiative is to safely reduce delays and emissions within months, not years or decades.

And while this program is focused on the corporate jet community, GreenLandings® works equally well for airlines at airports as diverse as Newark Liberty, LaGuardia, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and others.

 

Next, let’s dispel the idea that capacity is the problem. The charts below shows demand at Teterboro (TEB) and Newark (EWR) on February 9th, 2023, below capacity (horizontal black line), yet on time zero arrival (A0) for TEB was 35% and 76% for EWR.

                        

 

The GreenLandings® concept is simple – optimizing “day of” aircraft landing times to prevent overloading the airport area. Many will say it’s not that simple, but independent validation in actual flight operations has demonstrated it really is fairly straightforward.

 

Driving predictive analytics with cloud-based artificial intelligence, ATH’s operationally proven, off-the-shelf, GreenLandings® landing time management solution calculates the landing time of all TEB aircraft, hours prior to landing.

Then ATH’s lighting fast, real time optimization engine evaluates thousands of small landing time changes, to find better, less congested landing times for each individual aircraft from a system perspective.

Once an improved, system focused, business-based landing time is calculated, the pilot is alerted and becomes an integral part of the solution. Engaging pilots to be a valuable and contributing resource has yet to be utilized in any solution to date and is an important part of the GreenLandings® success.

 

The performance of the GreenLandings® solution has been independently validated by FAA, Embry-Riddle University, GE Aviation, Georgia Tech and others to quickly/profitably reduce aviation delays, congestion and excess CO2, with zero analysis to the contrary. 

 

The technology, data, software, computational power, optimization engine, communication capability and real time operational flexibility are all available and in place to make Teterboro GreenLandings® Initiative a reality starting within months.

 

Finally, GreenLandings® moves aviation’s “day of” production process into the 21st century, Big Data, Supply Chain world, allowing operators and airlines to reduce emissions and costs (Aviation Needs a New Direction — Driven by Vision and Leadership).