decarbonising AIRport regions

ERRIN

Airport Regions Conference

• ARC: regions make Europe fly• The regional and local authorities hosting

and neighbouring an international airport• The democratically elected

representatives of all the citizen living nearby an airport• The voice of regional and local authorities

in dialogue with aviation stakeholders, economic and institutional partners at national, European and international level

What’s dAIR ?

dAIR is a policy tool

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The aim is to lower the carbon emissions

dAIR is a policy tool

Identification and exchange of best practicesDrafting of action plans Test cases

Objective 1: reducing the carbon emissions linked to surface access

The starting point

• Surface access : up to 50% of the carbon emissions of an airport

• The public transport systems are shaped for only one type of user (the passenger)

Interim results

• Local authorities have to provide more with less money

• Technology is providing solutions

• Sometimes solutions come from common sense

• Concertation needs

Need to adapt existing solutions (eg: bus on demand)See what has been tested in other placesMalta – air conditioning in buses- closing doorsStakeholders forum

Objective 2: reducing emissions from airport operations

How

• Airport Operations represent around 10% of carbon emissions

• By helping airports to engage in their ACA programme

Interim results

• The return on investments targets

• Engagement of stakeholders

• Ideas out of beaten tracks

• Use of local resources

Credible+Negotiation arguments

What outcomes ?

Malta – air conditioning in buses- closing doorsStakeholders forum

Avoid “buzz investments”

Objective 2: one strong theme, INNOVATION

What’s innovation?

• An overall special point of attention within the projet's 2 sub-objectives is

'innovation', and more specifically, the way for public actors to engage business and R&D institutions in

reaching the ambitious goals of creating well connected green airport regions. Intelligent co-operation models between project PPs, business and R&D community can

lead to easy access to existing state-of-the-art solutions and/or development of new products/services and their rapid market uptake.

Innovation or not ?

• Smarter use of existing resources– Eco-driving incentives– Use of snow to provide air conditionning– Bus on demand

• Equipment – Electric cars, smart floors

• Infrastructures– Metro tram

• Processes:– Procurement– Mobility plans