{"id":435405,"date":"2021-09-10T11:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T05:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435405"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:58:07","slug":"delhi-how-elevated-taxiways-will-help-igi-cut-co2-emissions-by-55000-tonnes-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-how-elevated-taxiways-will-help-igi-cut-co2-emissions-by-55000-tonnes-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: How elevated taxiways will help IGI cut CO2 emissions by 55,000 tonnes annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) \u2013 the operator at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) \u2013 has estimated that the construction of the dual elevated cross taxiways (ECT) is likely to reduce CO2 emissions by 55,000 tonnes annually. <\/p>\n<p>The project is scheduled to be ready by December 2022. DIAL said once the 2.1km-long dual elevated eastern cross taxiways were completed, they would help decongest the airport and reduce turnaround time for airlines, with passengers also having to wait inside the flight for a shorter duration after landing or during takeoff. <\/p>\n<p>A DIAL official said that, at present, an aircraft had to cover a distance of around 9km after landing at runway 29\/11 or to takeoff from the same. After commissioning of the ECT,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) \u2013 the operator at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) \u2013 has estimated that the construction of the dual elevated cross taxiways (ECT) is likely to reduce CO2 emissions by 55,000 tonnes annually. The project is scheduled to be ready by December 2022. DIAL said once the 2.1km-long dual elevated eastern cross taxiways were completed, they would help decongest the airport and reduce turnaround time for airlines, with passengers also having to wait inside the flight for a shorter duration after landing or during takeoff. A DIAL official said that, at present, an aircraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}