Do box-wing aircraft configurations add financial value? Results from an academic-based experience

IF 4.1 2区工程技术 Q2 BUSINESS

Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101323

Fabio Magnacca

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Abstract

In recent years, the air transport system has faced a number of major setbacks and demands, making the re-evaluation of traditional design and operational paradigms essential. This has also highlighted the need to explore new aircraft configurations offering improved capacity, efficiency, reduced environmental impacts, and better adaptability to evolving market demands. Consequently, this paper focuses on box-wing aircraft, an innovative aircraft configuration that might be a future improvement of current commercial airplanes' tube-and-wing design. While the innovative box-wing configuration has been studied from various perspectives, no research has examined it from a financial standpoint. This paper aims to explore this issue in depth. By leveraging data and financial models developed over a three-year interventionist experience with the Horizon 2020 PARSIFAL project, this article evaluates whether a box-wing aircraft could be a financially viable alternative to existing aircraft configurations. The results suggest that the introduction of a box-wing aircraft as a future mode of air transportation could provide the aviation sector and society with substantial financial benefits.

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箱翼飞机的配置能增加经济价值吗？来自学术经验的结果

近年来，航空运输系统面临着许多重大挫折和需求，因此必须重新评估传统的设计和操作范式。这也强调了探索新的飞机配置的必要性，这些配置可以提高容量、效率、减少对环境的影响，并更好地适应不断变化的市场需求。因此，本文将重点放在盒翼飞机上，这是一种创新的飞机结构，可能是当前商用飞机管翼设计的未来改进。虽然创新的箱翼结构已经从各种角度进行了研究，但没有研究从财务角度对其进行了审查。本文旨在对这一问题进行深入探讨。通过利用在Horizon 2020 PARSIFAL项目中三年干预经验中开发的数据和财务模型，本文评估了盒翼飞机是否可以成为现有飞机配置的经济可行替代品。结果表明，引入箱翼飞机作为未来的航空运输方式可以为航空部门和社会提供可观的经济效益。

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期刊介绍： Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector