O Projeto Pista Infinita e a Repercussão no Impacto Ambiental

• Autor(a) principal: Peter, Fabio Arrais
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Universitário da Ânima (RUNA)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/15892
• topic: Impacto Ambiental; Aeroporto; Pista Circular; Pista Infinita

This research has as general objective demonstrate the advantages that can be generated by an airport with a circular landing and takeoff runway on the reduction of the environment impact, using the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Center (NLR) Endless Runway project. From the deadlock between the great benefits brought to the society by the airports, and the great environment impact brought by the construction of an airport infrastructure, an innovative proposal is presented by Dutch researchers: an airport with a circular runway. The research was based on the theme’s bibliographic material, including current environmental legislation, and data from the Dutch project Endless Runway, made available by the researchers on the Internet. Once the environmental impacts caused by conventional airports were identified, the Endless Runway project was presented, and a comparison was made between the environmental impact caused by the conventional airport model, and the circular airport model, which is still fictitious, if applied to the real world. Then, possible limitations and challenges for a project of an airport with a circular runway were presented, such as the type of approach to be used for landing, emergency situations on the landing gear or aircraft controls, and regulation, certification and standardization. Through the research, the possibility of about 64% reduction on the degradation of flora and fauna and of about 10% reduction on the sound pressure levels on the regions close to the airports was presented. As for the microclimate change and reduction of the air quality, an improvement would be possible due to the reduction of the total devastated area, in addition to the reduction in fuel consumption on the ground by at least 5%. At the end of the research, the conclusion is that the Endless Runway project, although has limitations and points to be studied from the operational point of view, presents itself as a promising solution from the environmental point of view. The application of a project of an airport with a circular landing and take-off runway, at the same time could reduce the environmental impact caused by the airport infrastructure, could also allow an operational optimization at the airport, since a circular runway has an “endless extension”.