ASSESSMENT OF THE OVERALL GLOBAL AIR TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT IN CONSIDERATION OF GENERAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

摘要

Within the last years intensive efforts have been made in order to balance the need for an efficient air transport system and the negative effects of growing air transport with regard to sustainability issues. Especially in the field of environment the pressure to decouple growing demand and economic benefits from a higher emissions development path and noise exposure is immense. Addressing this problem;;an evaluation of the air transport development regarding a general sustainable development is needed to achieve orientation for further regulations in the air transport sector. On this basis;;a detailed indicator system was developed in a first step. This system deals with the long-term global air transport development in the past two decades from an economic;;ecological and social perspective and is capable of a continuous analysis of main trends with regard to the three pillars of sustainability. In a second step;;concrete sustainability goals from the field of politics were reviewed for assessing the observed trends with regard to their concrete impacts. Thus;;useful suggestions for the strengthening of sustainability in the aviation industry could be made and conclusions for the improvement of general sustainability goals could be drawn from the described approach.