The intermodal travel experience has changed significantly over the past two decades and continues to evolve. The broad adoption of digital technologies has altered how customers plan, book, and pay for travel and navigate spaces. Those that plan, build, and manage intermodal passenger facilities—such as airports, transit centers, rail and bus stations, and ferry and cruise terminals—must consider recent trends and emerging technologies and the impact on the travel experience.
TCRP Research Report 250/ACRP Research Report 275/NCHRP Research Report 1129: Intermodal Passenger Facility Planning and Decision-Making for Seamless Travel, from TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program, Airport Cooperative Research Program, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program, describes the state of the practice, emerging lessons, and recommended practices for how intermodal passenger facilities can meet the needs of diverse users in the 21st century as new technologies emerge. The report emphasizes support for seamless travel, considering how different people experience intermodal passenger facilities.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27953
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Intermodal Passenger Facility Planning and Decision-Making for Seamless Travel. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) carsharing companies allow customers to reserve, pick up, and return a motor vehicle (most commonly owned by an individual) through a company-provided app for a fee. While P2P carsharing continues to grow across the United States, information on the nature of this activity at airports and how it affects revenue, operations, safety, and facilities is limited.
ACRP Research Report 274: Accommodating Peer-to-Peer Carsharing at Airports: A Guide, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides airport practitioners with suggested practices for accommodating P2P carsharing companies.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27983
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Accommodating Peer-to-Peer Carsharing at Airports: A Guide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Airports face challenges recruiting and maintaining their workforce, and one reason is the employee commute. Airports are typically located further from residential areas and city centers, which can contribute to employee commuting time, method, and cost.
ACRP Synthesis 136: Exploring Airport Employee Commuting and Transportation Needs, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, describes how airport employees commute to and from work and how airports are seeking to influence employee transportation decisions.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27994
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Exploring Airport Employee Commuting and Transportation Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Preventive maintenance is crucial to help improve and extend the life cycle of airport facilities, systems, and components. An asset management plan implements preventive maintenance and allows an asset to reach its maximum life cycle or service life without a reactive approach.
ACRP Research Report 273: Quantifying the Impacts of Delayed Maintenance of Airport Assets: A Guide, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides a framework, process, and tools designed to help airports manage their budgets and assets by quantifying the impact of delayed preventive maintenance.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72647-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27960
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Quantifying the Impacts of Delayed Maintenance of Airport Assets: A Guide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Airport arts programs benefit passengers, stakeholders, and airports by displaying visually appealing exhibits through the airport journey that can highlight the airport and provide cultural education about the area.
ACRP Synthesis 135: Methods of Airport Arts Program Management, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, describes management methods that airports and their arts program administrators use to implement, operate, and manage their programs.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27988
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Methods of Airport Arts Program Management. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Over the next several decades, airports must confront diverse challenges that span factors such as operations, environmental sustainability, and integration with broader intercity and local transportation networks. Furthermore, airports must confront these challenges within the context of their local communities; airports are expected to be economic engines, good neighbors, and resilient in response to natural or man-made disasters.
ACRP Research Report 271: Envisioning the Future of U.S. Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, is based on a visioning exercise conducted with a wide variety of airport stakeholders and identifies potential future outcomes and the issues and challenges that will need to be addressed to achieve the desired future.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27969
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Envisioning the Future of U.S. Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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After new airline service has been acquired, preparing for the airline to launch service requires advance planning and coordination between the airport and new airline. Onboarding a new airline involves multiple people and/or departments at the airport.
ACRP Synthesis 134: Airport Practices for Onboarding a New Passenger Airline, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, describes airport practices and approaches as to how airport staff prepare to onboard a new passenger airline.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72478-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27918
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Airport Practices for Onboarding a New Passenger Airline. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Historically, airport capital construction projects entailed the almost exclusive use of the design–bid–build (DBB) delivery method involving the separation of design and construction services and the sequential performance of design and construction. However, over the past two decades, airports have increasingly been turning to alternative project delivery methods to improve the speed and efficiency of the project delivery process.
ACRP Research Report 267: Selecting, Procuring, and Implementing Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, is designed to tailor delivery strategies that include a thorough understanding of the unique advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches available and the typical conditions under which they have been effectively applied.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72606-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27951
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Selecting, Procuring, and Implementing Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The transition of asset information from the planning, design, and construction stages to the operations and maintenance (O&M) stage can be challenging. A successful asset information handover process will lead to informed O&M planning decisions, which may result in positive financial and functional impacts for O&M departments.
ACRP Research Report 264: Asset Information Handover Guidelines from Planning and Construction to Operations and Maintenance, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, presents guidelines for airport operators on establishing an asset information handover process during construction project closeout.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27924
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Asset Information Handover Guidelines from Planning and Construction to Operations and Maintenance. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Although continuity has historically been viewed as part of the recovery phase of a crisis incident rather than a critical element of crisis response, there is an opportunity to reframe the role for continuity planning to claim it as a tool for constant adaptability to the world's many disruptions.
ACRP Research Report 268: Integrating Crisis Management and Business Continuity at Airports: A Practical Guide, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides concepts, tools, and resources to build critical thinking skills and adaptability so that airports are prepared for anticipated and unforeseen crises that threaten to disrupt operations. It sets a path for building continuity leaders at every level of an airport by equipping them with a working knowledge of continuity through activities anchored in the essential elements of a practical program.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72468-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27915
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Integrating Crisis Management and Business Continuity at Airports: A Practical Guide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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There are nearly 3,000 general aviation (GA) airports that are important to the communities in which they operate and are key contributors to the successful network of the national airport system. GA airports are uniquely positioned assets in any community, and it is therefore essential for GA staff to understand, predict, and address shocks (such as airplane accidents, severe weather, and utility outages) and stressors (such as employment challenges, aging infrastructure, and climate change impacts) before they happen.
ACRP Research Report 263: Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, is a guide and toolkit that prepares GA airports to respond to, adapt to, and recover from all varieties of stressors and shocks while maintaining operations.
Supplemental to the report are a flyer, an overview PowerPoint, and a set of associated tools and templates.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27879
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Because of the diversity of charging needs at airports and the varied policy environments in which airports operate, no single roadmap describes how to best install electric vehicle charging. Furthermore, an airport may use multiple approaches to owning and operating charging infrastructure. To help simplify this complex space, this planning guide categorizes charging into eight use cases.
ACRP Web-Only Document 61: Planning for Future Electric Vehicle Growth at Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, is designed as a primer to help educate airport staff and practitioners on the technologies and processes associated with charging infrastructure. The guide was developed in Phase I of ACRP Project 03-71 that will include additional products in Phase II.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Planning for Future Electric Vehicle Growth at Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The communities surrounding airports have become increasingly aware of airport emissions and potential impacts of those emissions on local air quality and public health. Those concerns along with growth in airport operations have spurred the need for airport operators to more fully understand the potential for health impacts related to airport operations and to develop better information and methods to share this information with the public.
ACRP Web-Only Document 62: Understanding Airport Air Quality and Public Health Studies Related to Airports, Second Edition, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, evaluates and updates the existing body of knowledge on air quality and public health studies related to airports to help airport operators better understand and respond to airport-related air quality and public health concerns.
Supplement to the document is an interactive version of Appendix A from the report that lists relevant peer-reviewed publications.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27886
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Understanding Airport Air Quality and Public Health Studies Related to Airports, Second Edition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are found in many products, from consumer products to building materials. For airports, the primary implication is associated with aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) used in firefighting. For many years, airport operators were required to use AFFFs and, as a result of recommended training requirements and fire response, may have had releases of AFFFs to the environment.
ACRP Research Report 262: PFAS Management at Airports: A Guide, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides information and practical considerations for managing AFFFs containing PFAS used for firefighting at airports.
Four appendices provide a comprehensive set of tools and resources for airport managers: Appendix A (Toolkit on Assessing Current and Historical Product Use and Activities), Appendix B (Toolkit on Policies, Procedures, and Operations), Appendix C (Toolkit on Regulatory Action, Financial Planning, and Remediation), and Appendix D (Toolkit on Communication and Public Engagement). Appendix E summarizes the project's research methodology and Appendix F contains the survey questionnaire sent to airport staff nationwide and its findings.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70981-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27844
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. PFAS Management at Airports: A Guide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Energy resiliency strategies, established by developing an airport energy resiliency roadmap, help ensure the continued operations of an airport in the face of near-term disruptive events and longer-term shifts in energy supply and demand.
Airport Energy Resiliency: A Primer summarizes the benefits of energy resiliency, outlines the processes for achieving it, and addresses the role of airport leaders. The associated ACRP Research Report 260: Airport Energy Resiliency Roadmap details a step-by-step process for developing an airport resiliency roadmap.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27847
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Airport Energy Resiliency: A Primer. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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An airport's energy service from the grid may be vulnerable to increasing demands and costs and the potential for short- or long-term disruptions caused by natural and human-caused events. Developing an airport energy resiliency roadmap allows the airport to establish a baseline of its energy use, supply, and vulnerabilities; set goals and related strategies in concert with stakeholder input to address its energy resiliency; and prioritize and integrate the strategies into other airport planning processes, including funding plans.
ACRP Research Report 260: Airport Energy Resiliency Roadmap, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides the step-by-step process for airport staff and stakeholders to develop a customized plan for their airport and to provide data to the airport's decision-makers to generate support for the implementation.
Supplemental to the report is a Conduct of Research Report that details the research effort and Airport Energy Resiliency: A Primer, which summarizes the case for airport energy resiliency and addresses the role of airport leaders.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70956-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27491
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Airport Energy Resiliency Roadmap. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Aviation is undergoing a transformation. Advancements in technology are enabling innovations in regional and on-demand aviation. Many challenges are currently being addressed, including community acceptance, safety, equity, issues around planning and implementation, airspace, and operations.
Transportation Insights 4: On-Demand Aviation Services for Mobility, Logistics, Emergency Response, and Humanitarian Use Cases, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, summarizes an ACRP Insight Event held July 10-11, 2023, at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington, D.C., that brought together practitioners from airports; advanced air mobility subject matter experts; representatives from community organizations, municipal and state and federal government officials; and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) among others to discuss the current state of on-demand aviation, public good use cases, and the challenges often associated with new and evolving technologies, including community acceptance, safety, and equitable access.
There is also a website with details for the event.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70972-5
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27794
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. On-Demand Aviation Services for Mobility, Logistics, Emergency Response, and Humanitarian Use Cases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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As air travel continues to increase worldwide, threats from communicable disease transmission via air travel remains a top public health concern. Airports can serve as a setting for potential community spread while simultaneously, communicable diseases can adversely impact airport operations.
ACRP Web-Only Document 57: Developing an Airport Communicable Disease Response Plan: Guide and Template, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides airport operators with the fundamental information needed to understand communicable diseases and their intersection with airports, an understanding of the range of factors that influence communicable disease incidents in airport contexts, and detailed actions that airport practitioners can consider to develop and implement an airport communicable disease response plan.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71791-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27736
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Developing an Airport Communicable Disease Response Plan: Guide and Template. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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