Arbeitspapier
Airline Fuel Usage and Carbon Emissions: Determining Factors
Using annual data on individual US airlines over the 1995-2015 period, this paper presents regression results relating an airline’s total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its aircraft, average stage length (flight distance); average load factor (measured by weight); the average vintage (construction year) of its aircraft; the percentage of the airline’s flights that are delayed; and the average annual fuel price. The results show how fuel usage and carbon emissions depend on a small set of crucial variables. The estimated fuel-price effect allows the emissions impact of an optimal emissions charge to be computed, and the estimated delay effect shows the emissions impact of an industry-wide reduction in flight delays. The regression model is generated from a theoretical framework.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6033
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Environmental Economics: General
- Subject
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airline
emissions
emissions charges
carbon
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Brueckner, Jan K.
Abreu, Chrystyane
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Brueckner, Jan K.
- Abreu, Chrystyane
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2016
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