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Peggy Li presented on her modelling of airline and passenger responses to new aircraft technology availability in China at the ATRS conference last week - see our publications page for the full presentation.

Hon. Professor Brian Pearce debated, with Dan Elliot of Frontier Economics, the economic issues around the proposed reform in the UK of the way in which airport take-off and landing slots at congested airports are allocated. This webinar was one of a series produced...

IATA's new comparison of net zero roadmaps, a study which was carried out in collaboration with the UCL ATSLab and other major producers of aviation net zero roadmaps, has just been released - see IATA's website for details and the report. As well as the ATSLab...

Honorary Professor Brian Pearce has recently co-authored Air Transport Economics: From Theory to Applications, published by Routledge. Aimed as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the aviation industry, this fourth edition has been extensively...

ATSlab presenters showcased two studies at TRB this year: Dr Yagmur Gök presented a poster on the effect of airline business model on projected new technology uptake, and Dr. Khan Doyme presented research on how airline competition modelling can be used to estimate...

Dr. Lynnette Dray gave an invited presentation on "The Role of Sustainable Aviation Fuels and Liquid Hydrogen in the Path towards Climate Neutrality" at Bauhaus Luftfahrt's symposium on climate-neutral aviation in Berlin on the 12-13th March. See our publications page...

ATSLab members will be presenting on exciting new work at two upcoming conferences: the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) conference in Washington in January, and the European Aviation Conference (EAC) in Luxembourg in December. At TRB, we will be showcasing our...

Brian Pearce, who was awarded a Honorary Professorship at UCL, has joined the ATSlab as its Executive Director.  In this role, Brian will contribute to ATSlab research and manage the laboratory’s stakeholder relationships.  Brian brings a wealth of aviation industry...

The latest issue of NPR's Outside/In podcast, Do airports dream of electric planes, includes an interview with the ATSlab's Dr. Lynnette Dray on aviation emissions and electric aircraft. Available to listen to for free here:...

After a successful ATRS, we're pleased to add two new presentations to our online library of ATSlab publications: "Modeling Consumer Preferences for Low-CO2 Emissions Aircraft in China" (Li et al, presentation here) and "Global air freight flow data for aviation...

Dr. Lynnette Dray presented on recent UCL ATSlab, MIT and Imperial College research on aviation pathways to net zero at the US Federal Aviation Authority's New and Emerging Aviation Technologies seminar series on June 28th. See our publications page or click here for...

ATSlab members are presenting two talks on new research at ATRS 2023 in Kobe. PhD student Peggy Li is presenting on her survey work on passenger acceptance of alternative fuel aircraft in China on Saturday July 1, and Dr. Lynnette Dray is presenting on work for the...

Prof. Andreas W. Schäfer participated in the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything podcast on “Greener Planes Are Taking Flight That Could Change How We Travel.” Other participants included industry leaders Paul Eremenko (Universal Hydrogen), Kyle Clark (Beta...

The ATSlab Aviation Integrated Model (AIM) forms a key part of the new IATA net zero roadmaps, available from IATA's website here.

On 16 May 2023, Prof. Andreas W. Schäfer gave a plenary talk at the IATA Aviation Energy Forum in Seattle, USA.  His talk, titled "Energy Requirements for the Energy Transition" included recent ATSlab modelling outcomes on the energy infrastructure implications of...

The first open source version of the Airline Behaviour Model (ABM) is now available. Find it here: ABM Open Source v1.0

On 2 February 2023, the ATSlab hosted a one-day workshop in Central London on how aviation can transition towards net-zero climate impacts. The event, which was co-organized with Norway’s leading climate science institute “Center for International Climate Research”...

Prof Andreas W. Schäfer spoke to MIT Technology Review on the prospects of using hydrogen as an aircraft fuel. Link to the published article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/19/1067113/hydrogen-planes-test-flight/

Prof Andreas W. Schäfer spoke to the New York Times on the challenges of reducing aviation's climate impact. Link to the published article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/travel/airlines-climate-change-fuel.html

Applications are now open for a fully funded DTP PhD studentship in the ATSlab (deadline January 26th)! See here for more details. We're looking for someone to work on how the choices of different types of air passenger affect airline decarbonisation decisions and...