TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 167: Guidebook for Developing Ramp Control Facilities provides guidance to airport operators considering providing ramp control services. An accompanying
Ramp Control Decision Support Toolassists users through most considerations before providing ramp control services, including facility requirements, staffing, training, and technology and other factors, allowing the user to determine the best way to move forward.
The Ramp Control Decision Support Tool is implemented in a sequence of HTML files and Javascript libraries that can be navigated using a web browser. The current version of the tool supports Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers.
In order to use the install and start the tool please use the following steps:
1. Copy the provided zip file with the tool to a local directory.
2. Unzip the contents of the zip file to this directory.
3. Open index.html file using either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
4. The welcome page provides a general overview of the tool.
5. Click on the Get Started button to start uisng the tool. This will lead to Step 1 questions.
6. Provide responses to questions included in Step 1 and when done click on the Next button.
7. Repeat for Steps 2 and 3.
8. When done answering the questions for all three steps click on Report to automatically generate a report with all provided answers.
9. The report can be printed by clicking on Print button.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Guidebook for Developing Ramp Control Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 26: Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices is a digest of the progress and status of ACRP Project 11-03, Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices: 2017. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 168: Runway Protection Zones (RPZs) Risk Assessment Tool Users' Guide helps airport operators evaluate the risk of an aircraft accident within an RPZ. Although runway protection zones (RPZs) are supposed to be clear of structures and people, it is still common for activities to occur within an RPZ for many reasons, and these reasons can be beyond the control of the airport operator.
The report is accompanied by a tool used to assess the risk of an aircraft accident within the RPZ, and, based on that output, assess the risk to people and property, considering the population density and land use. The tool can be used to run scenarios for planning around an RPZ or if changes are being considered, for example a change in the threshold, extending a runway, removing a hazard, and planning for a new runway. Ideally, the Users' Guide should be read before starting to use the tool.
Chapter 4 has instructions for installing the tool, including how to download SQL, which is required to run the RPZ_RAT tool. For background on the development of the tool, see the Contractor's Final Report.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Runway Protection Zones (RPZs) Risk Assessment Tool Users' Guide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 169: Clean Water Act Requirements for Airports describes the environmental regulations and permitting programs to which airports may be subject in their management of stormwater and other types of water resources. It covers governing federal programs; stormwater discharges associated with industrial activities, construction activities, and municipal separate storm sewer systems; process water or wastewater treatment discharges; industrial wastewater pretreatment discharges; and other relevant permit programs.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Clean Water Act Requirements for Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 28: Identifying and Evaluating Airport Workforce Requirements gathers information that will help identify and evaluate the current and future airport job requirements and associated workforce capacity needs; assess the potential of current airport education, training, and resources to address workforce gaps; and provide a practical guidebook that presents effective workforce planning and development strategies. The Web-Only document summarizes the information gathered in the first phase of the project.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Identifying and Evaluating Airport Workforce Requirements. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 25: Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues Update: 2008–2017 provides initial information for the 2016–2017 academic year of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues (ACRP Project 11-04).
The report also includes abstracts for student papers from the 2015–2016, 2014–2015, and 2013–2014 academic years, and lists papers from prior academic years beginning in 2008–2009. Abstracts for the earlier papers are available in ACRP RRD 14 and ACRP RRD 19.
The program, sponsored by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and administered by the ACRP, is designed to encourage applied research on airport-related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders. Under the program, up to ten awards of $10,000 each are made to full-time graduate students for successful completion of a research paper on public-sector airport-related aviation issues during the academic year.
Candidates must be full-time students enrolled in a graduate degree program at a North American accredited institution of higher learning during the academic year. Successful papers are presented at the TRB Annual Meeting following completion of the program, and exceptional papers have been published in subsequent volumes of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues Update: 2008–2017. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume 3: Resources for Airports presents an overview of the many elements of NextGen, in terms and context that are relevant, familiar, and understandable to airport operators. This guide and associated primer broadly address potential airport impacts and include background information so that airport personnel can discern which NextGen programs will impact them and how. The report includes a list of NextGen technologies and initiatives as well as a likely timeline for implementation. Appendices include a glossary of terms and a Public Information Toolkit for communicating about the NextGen initiative to the broad spectrum of external stakeholders. This Public Information Toolkit is listed below.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 164: Exhaust Emissions from In-Use General Aviation Aircraft provides
emissions datato better understand and estimate general aviation (GA) aircraft emissions. Aircraft emissions data for smaller aircraft such as piston and small turbine-powered aircraft either do not exist or have not been independently verified. The emissions data obtained as a part of this project can be added to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) database of aircraft engines. A
PowerPoint presentationprovides an overview of the findings.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Exhaust Emissions from In-Use General Aviation Aircraft. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume 4: Leveraging NextGen Spatial Data to Benefit Airports: Guidebook provides information for airport operators on the benefits to airports associated with the creation, maintenance, and use of spatial data that is generated in conjunction with NextGen initiatives. The guidebook also describes costs, and financial and legal considerations of this data.
In addition to the guidebook, a PowerPoint presentation template provides an overview of the research study, addresses the findings and conclusions of the study, and provides suggestions for continued research and documentation of these issues.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. NextGen for Airports, Volume 4: Leveraging NextGen Spatial Data to Benefit Airports: Guidebook. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 30: Contract Risk Management for Airport Agreements provides a general overview of the types of agreements that are typically used by airports of all sizes. It identifies primary risks associated with each type of agreement, and the
appendicesprovide sample language from four organizations illustrating how they manage and mitigate those risks.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Contract Risk Management for Airport Agreements. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 165: Tracking Alternative Jet Fuel provides guidance to airports on ways to track alternative jet fuels. As alternative jet fuels start to enter the supply chain, there may be a need to keep track of such fuel for technical, regulatory, and commercial reasons. In addition to the guidance, a greenhouse gas calculator and an alternative fuels inventory tracking spreadsheet compare different types of tracking mechanisms and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages, impediments to implementation, and potential impacts.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 163: Guidebook for Preparing and Using Airport Design Day Flight Schedules explores the preparation and use of airport design day flight schedules (DDFS) for operations, planning, and development. The guidebook is geared towards airport leaders to help provide an understanding of DDFS and their uses, and provides detailed information for airport staff and consultants on how to prepare one.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Guidebook for Preparing and Using Airport Design Day Flight Schedules. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has updated Report 45: Optimizing the Use of Aircraft Deicing and Anti-Icing Fluids provides guidance on procedures and technologies designed to help reduce the use of aircraft deicing and anti-icing fluids (ADAF) while maintaining safe aircraft operations across the wide range of winter weather conditions found in the United States and Canada.
The report includes a series of best management practices that have the potential to be immediately implemented, and highlights the detailed findings and recommendations of experiments to evaluate holdover time determination systems, spot deicing for aircraft frost removal, and ADAF dilutions.
In 2016, the 16 Fact Sheets were reviewed to assess if they reflected current technologies and practices in the industry. That review resulted in updates to Fact Sheets 45, 55, and 56, and the creation of a new Fact Sheet 112. describing promising technologies and procedures from Chapter 2, in the form of readily implementable best management practices.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2011. Optimizing the Use of Aircraft Deicing and Anti-Icing Fluids. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume 2: Engaging Airport Stakeholders: Guidebook helps airports engage the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), aircraft operators, community representatives, and other airport stakeholders during the planning, environmental review, design, deployment, and monitoring phases of NextGen implementation.
The guidance references a NextGen Outreach Toolkit, which contain videos, an interactive flow chart, and links to additional resources. The NextGen Outreach Toolkit, which will be available for download from a forthcoming website, accompanies Volume 2. The Toolkit also incorporates material created in conjunction with the other projects in the ACRP 150 (NextGen) series. These materials may help airports establish a continuous engagement strategy to balance stakeholder needs as well as efficient NextGen implementation.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. NextGen for Airports, Volume 2: Engaging Airport Stakeholders: Guidebook. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 161: Guidelines for Improving Airport Services for International Customers assists airport practitioners in implementing departure and arrival processes, passenger services, and wayfinding techniques for international travelers navigating through U.S. airports. The report covers processing international passengers from origin through gateway airports to their ultimate destination; identifies key elements of the international customer experience that can influence satisfaction in light of the customers' diverse backgrounds; defines acceptable service levels that an international passenger experiences; and provides service metrics for passenger processing at airports, based upon internationally acceptable wait times.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Guidelines for Improving Airport Services for International Customers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 78: Continuity of Operations Planning for Small Airports compiles information about current continuity planning practices at airports of different types and sizes and determine how they can be effectively applied to smaller airports to maintain resilient operational and business capacity during a disruption, regardless of cause.
Business continuity planning is the process of developing a plan for operating essential operational and business functions in the face of a disruption caused by any types of emergencies, incidents, or events. This study addresses business continuity planning for both emergency and non-emergency disruptions. This report is a companion to ACRP Report 93: Operational and Business Continuity Planning for Prolonged Airport Disruptions.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Continuity of Operations Planning for Small Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 162: Guidebook for Assessing Airport Lead Impacts explores two strategies that airport operators can potentially implement to minimize the impacts of lead emissions from piston-engine aircraft. The guidebook also provides a history of lead in aviation gasoline and EPA regulations. The strategies examine how the impact from lead emissions may be minimized. The report includes a
Frequently Asked Questionsdocument about aviation and lead, and the
Contractor's Final Report.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Guidebook for Assessing Airport Lead Impacts. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 159: Pavement Maintenance Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management provides guidance to general aviation airport managers in determining the most cost-efficient and appropriate preventative maintenance solution to common pavement issues. In addition to the guidebook, two additional products were developed.
The Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool is an interactive tool that will assist the user in identifying pavement issues. The Field Guide for the Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool is intended to assist in identifying the specific pavement issues while in the field.
This tool is offered as is, without warranty or promise of support of any kind either expressed or implied. Under no circumstance will the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine or the Transportation Research Board (collectively "TRB") be liable for any loss or damage caused by the installation or operation of this product. TRB makes no representation or warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, including without limitation, the warranty of merchantability or the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not in any case be liable for any consequential or special damages.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Pavement Maintenance Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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