Aircraft: CPACS (DLR)

[michaelweinold]

Vocabulary name

CPACS (DLR)

Vocabulary Homepage URL

https://dlr-sl.github.io/cpacs-website/

Vocabulary Data Source URL

https://dlr-sl.github.io/CPACS/html/c0ba9e4f-907d-6cd2-42c4-d4ed9179a9dd.htm

Justify this Vocabulary Choice

CPACS is currently the most extensive public-domain aircraft manufacturing/design schema. Highly detailed - in practice likelt too detailed, but a great starting point.

Importing the Vocabulary Data

Patience?

This was co-suggested by @krookar.

[michaelweinold]

A more useful, much more conservative collection of terms for air transport as a functional unit would be something along the lines of the current Ecoinvent process transport, passenger aircraft, long haul:

• airport infrastructure [present in Ecoinvent]
• air transport infrastructure (ATC, regulatory, etc.) [our addition]
• fuels [present in Ecoinvent]
• aircraft [present in Ecoinvent]

And aircraft could be:

• engines
• fuselage (type specific)
• ...