Six PhD students and staff from TU Delft – including Dr Peter Vink – are creating a digital model of comfort in turboprop aircraft, supporting the development of hydrogen/fuel cell airplanes. Various factors that influence comfort can be put into the model to help it create estimations of passenger comfort.
However, the team needed data, so during a 70-minute flight they made recordings and measurements regarding lighting, temperature, CO2, humidity, noise, vibration, etc, and asked 50 passengers to complete comfort questionnaires. The team is now conducting analysis of the resulting data