Boeing

Sustainable Airport Operations

A number of international and regional airlines have started to utilize zero emission vehicles (ZEV) as part of their ground support operations. Numerous technical, logistic, and financial challenges have prevented the widespread adoption across the breath of airports and airlines. This student team will work to create a plan to utilize zero emission vehicles (ZEV) for ground support equipment for an airline at a local commercial airport (i.e. Seattle-Tacoma, Paine Field, Spokane, etc.). This student team will work to apply their knowledge of sustainable transportation, traffic optimization, and infrastructure to identify and mitigate challenges for sustainable airport ground operations. This student team will work to create a final report that will serve as a guide for implementation. This student team will work to provide a final deliverable detailing the utilization plan, risks, and estimated Ozone reduction. The student team should work to include in their report discussions about methods, assumptions, conclusions, and areas for further consideration. This student team will work to provide a final deliverable including the details of the utilization plan, risks, and estimated Ozone reduction. This student team will work to define the vehicles needed to support airline ground operations and the infrastructure needed to support both conventional and zero emission vehicles (ZEV) for comparison - scalable for size. ZEVs can be electric, hydrogen, or a combination. Other details the student team will work to take into consideration (although not limited to the following) include: charge/refuel times, ZEV mileage, availability rate and time.