The AEON project aims at developing an innovative concept of green taxiing operations based on the coordinated application of autonomous, non-autonomous, and single-engine taxiing operations. A preliminary version of the operational concept and associated tools and HMIs have already been developed and are going to be validated with the involvement of operational experts, mainly air
Figure 1. AEON Advisory Board Composition On September 21, the AEON project gathered all the Advisory Board (AB) members in what come out as a pleasant and fruitful discussion. The well-balanced group of aviation stakeholders were called to provide their inputs on the initial concept of green taxiing techniques, developed by the Consortium
Last month, we were invited to talk to International Airport Review about the project and how its concept of operations (CONOPS) will lead aviation towards a more sustainable future. The Consortium depicted the current aviation system highlighting the alarming rate of increase of CO2 and other emissions that are growing faster than the number of flights,