MOONA – Modelling Operational efficiency and Offsets for Net zero Aviation

COVID-19大流行严重影响了航空业的底线，国际航空运输协会估计航空公司今年将损失843亿美元的收入。由于航班量在短期内可能低于预期，行业内的规模经济不太可能恢复到以前的水平。航空业恢复盈利的途径是通过提高运营效率。我们相信这为Signol创造了一个机会，帮助该行业转向低碳道路。通过利用迫切需要提高运营效率的优势，我们可以确保以减少排放的方式实现这些目标。Signol是一个软件平台，可以根据各个目标监控绩效，提供有关燃油使用行为的个性化和有针对性的反馈，以推动航空公司飞行员提高燃油效率，降低运营成本和碳排放。这个平台已经有能力代表飞行员捐款，作为一种亲社会的激励工具。在这个项目中，我们将研究对产品进行扩展的可能性，允许将节省的燃料预算（达到预定义的限制）投资于认可的碳抵消计划，作为一种激励形式，允许飞行员观察他们的表现，不仅直接减少排放，而且可能创造零净碳飞行。

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the bottom line of the aviation sector, with IATA estimating that airlines will lose $84.3 billion in revenue this year. As flight volumes are likely to be lower than expected into the near-term future, economies of scale within the industry are unlikely to return to their previous level. The way back to profitability for aviation is through improved operational efficiency.We believe that this creates an opportunity for Signol to help shift the sector onto a lower carbon path. By taking advantage of a pressing need to find efficiencies in operation, we can ensure that these are delivered in a way which reduces emissions.Signol is a software platform which monitors performance against individual targets, providing personalised and targeted feedback on fuel-use behaviours to nudge airline pilots into greater fuel efficiency, reducing operating costs and carbon emissions. This platform already has the ability to make donations on the behalf of pilots meeting their targets as a form of prosocial motivating tool. In this project, we would investigate the possibility of building an extension to the product allowing for the investment of saved fuel budgets (up to pre-defined limits) in accredited carbon-offsetting schemes as a form of incentive, allowing pilots to observe their performance not only reducing emissions directly, but potentially in creating zero net carbon flights.