MLP Analysis on the future and transition of electric airplanes

Abstract

The challenge, of global inclination of high-level emissions of carbon dioxide and other emissions including aviation emissions into the atmosphere, causing increasing rate of global warming issues, greenhouse effects, noise pollution and other social hindrances due to the increased indulgence, people’s mobility from point A to point B and industrialisation. This emission, cause environmental and health problems which therefore must be controlled at the various sectors including the Aviation industry. Comparatively, electric planes are more environmentally friendly to conventional planes. The thesis focuses on the transition of electric plane using the Multi Level Perspective Framework (MLP) to analyse the transition. The Multi-level perspective framework is a transition framework which explores socio technical transitions, at three (3) analytical levels known as the niche, regime, and landscape levels. A qualitative analysis was conducted, on electric plane transition in Norway by interviewing five (5) people, the first is an aviation transport industrialist. The second is a lecturer in UiS.The third is an aviation expert based in USA. Fourth is Entrepreneur based in Ghana and fifth person is an engineer from Ghana. The present study revealed, electric planes transition is at the Niche level, where there is a high tendency to reach regime level within the shortest possible time.