Contingency planning is crucial for small airports to best position themselves for addressing disruptions and contingencies - such as the COVID-19 pandemic - that impact staffing, financial and information technology resources, infrastructure, facilities, and/or supply chain shortages.
ACRP Web-Only Document 59: Integration of Contingency Planning for Small Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides resources, tools, and examples of integration that can guide future efforts undertaken by small airports. Smart, integrated contingency planning can minimize the operational and economic impacts to airports and their stakeholders and those who depend on their services.
Supplemental to the report is a Conduct of Research, a Checklist and Calendar, a Checklist of Contingency Plans, a Checklist of Exercise Types, a Contingency Plan Deconfliction Tool, a Contingency Planning and Integration Tree, Crisis Communications, an EOC Tool, a Course Selection Guide, and a Succession Planning Tool.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Integration of Contingency Planning for Small Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Advanced air mobility (AAM) includes the use of new aircraft technologies to transport passengers and cargo, typically on demand. The AAM ecosystem will initially rely on existing airports, heliports, and routes, but in the future, new dedicated facilities and routes will likely be developed. The impacts of AAM may be far-reaching and affect many stakeholders.
ACRP Research Report 261: Advanced Air Mobility and Community Outreach: A Primer for Successful Stakeholder Engagement, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, offers strategies and tools to help airport operators encourage and promote engagement with AAM operators, government agencies, and communities.
Supplemental to the report is Appendix C: Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Advanced Air Mobility and Community Outreach: A Primer for Successful Stakeholder Engagement. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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As airport leaders look to the future, it is important to consider how airports will fund their operations and investments and balance the risks in providing services to their customers and users while maintaining sound balance sheets.
Transportation Insights 3: The Future of Airport Finance, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides a summary of an in-person discussion forum convened by ACRP for aviation leaders and stakeholders to identify new and emerging finance-related issues, explore their relevance to airport authorities, posit new strategies for funding capital and operating costs, and suggest ways the financial burden could be shared among the variety of customers, users, business partners, and stakeholders of airports.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. The Future of Airport Finance. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The U.S. military has established resilience practices for domestic installations, and a number of different military organizations, such as the Air National Guard, are co-located at civilian airports. This situation provides opportunities for airports to learn from military resilience practices.
ACRP Synthesis 133: Identifying Military Resources and Strategies to Improve Civilian Airport Resiliency, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, documents resiliency practices and processes from the National Guard and other military services that airports can adapt and leverage for their own facilities and in partnerships with co-located military facilities.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Identifying Military Resources and Strategies to Improve Civilian Airport Resiliency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The catchment area of an airport encompasses areas where passengers are more likely to use the subject airport, even when there are other airport options in the vicinity.
ACRP Web-Only Document 56: Toolkit for Establishing Airport Catchment Areas, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, comprises various analytical tools, such as the Travel Utility Analysis tool, that enable airport industry practitioners to calculate the likely responses of travelers to different market and operational inputs, thus forecasting potential catchment areas for airports.
Supplemental to the report are three case studies: Case 1: Akron-Canton Airport (CAK), OH; Case 2: Ontario International Airport (ONT), CA; and Case 3: Albert J. Ellis Airport (OAJ), NC.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Toolkit for Establishing Airport Catchment Areas. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Airports collect data to help understand the customer journey from the entrance or access points of the airport to the boarding gates. Processes may change in order to improve the customer experience when the collected data are analyzed.
ACRP Synthesis 132: Airport Landside Data: Collection and Application, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, documents landside data, collection methods, analysis, and interpretation and discusses how that information affects airport decision-making.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70924-5
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Airport Landside Data: Collection and Application. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting is the term used for a corporate disclosure framework that focuses on a reporting organization's risks and means of mitigating issues with respect to environmental, social, and governance matters. While sustainability is a familiar concept to airports in the United States—with many having developed sustainability management or master plans, sustainability reports, and goals—ESG reporting is a new and rapidly evolving trend within the airport industry.
ACRP Web-Only Document 58: How New Corporate Environmental Standards Will Impact Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides a high-level overview of how to approach developing an ESG report, but it is not intended to serve as a comprehensive guidebook. Rather, this white paper includes information to help airports as they determine the need and methods for preparing an ESG report, and where to find additional information. The report provides airport sponsors, including airport executive leadership, financial, legal, environmental, sustainability, communications, and public engagement professionals, with some foundational knowledge on ESG reporting.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71325-0
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. How New Corporate Environmental Standards Will Impact Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Industry-wide, airports are experiencing disruptive and continuous changes that include the rapid introduction of new technology, financial constraints, retirements, and the need to replace seasoned veterans. These changes are compounded by a diminishing pipeline of individuals interested in working at airports.
ACRP Research Report 258: The Evolution of Knowledge Management at Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, is a resource that airports can use to help mitigate the loss of institutional knowledge when employees change jobs or retire.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70920-2
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. The Evolution of Knowledge Management at Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Obstructions from trees around airports can hinder aircraft operations, requiring the airport to manage tree growth, both on and even off airport property.
ACRP Research Report 259: Methods to Manage Tree Growth Near Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, identifies the mitigation strategies to address immediate needs, and longterm planning.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70919-9
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Methods to Manage Tree Growth Near Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabled by new technology with the potential to transform aviation and urban transportation systems over the next 10 years. Some of these technologies include electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as well as traditional fixed-wing aircraft using electric or other advanced propulsion systems.
ACRP Synthesis 130: Airport-Centric Advanced Air Mobility Market Study, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, is designed to help airports and other stakeholders as they plan for AAM. Many of the initial use cases for AAM will be integrated into existing airports of all sizes, including airport ground access, connecting passenger service between regional and hub airports, and cargo operations.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70918-0
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Airport-Centric Advanced Air Mobility Market Study. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In 2020, ACRP Synthesis 108: Characteristics of the FBO Industry 2018–2019 described the characteristics of the fixed-base operator (FBO) industry using data collected in 2018 and 2019. The objective of this synthesis was to follow up ACRP Synthesis 108 by examining selected recent and current trends in the aviation industry and their impacts at FBOs.
ACRP Synthesis 129: Landscape of the FBO Industry in 2022, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, investigates how general aviation fared during the COVID-19 pandemic and how FBOs, as the principal service agents for the industry, met pandemic challenges and addressed changes that predated COVID-19.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Landscape of the FBO Industry in 2022. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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To support safe operations, airport operators and tenants apply a variety of deicing and anti-icing chemicals (collectively, "deicers") to aircraft and airport paved surfaces.
ACRP Research Report 257: Guide for Treatment of Airport Stormwater Containing Deicers: Update, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides a comprehensive guide for selecting appropriate technologies to treat stormwater containing deicers at airports.
Supplemental to the report are Appendix B: Deicer Treatment Technology Fact Sheets and Appendix C: Airport Deicer Treatment System Summaries (which are both updates to fact sheets previously published in 2013 as part of ACRP Report 99: Guidance for Treatment of Airport Stormwater Containing Deicers); and Appendix D: Technical Memo–Considerations for discharge fees.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Guide for Treatment of Airport Stormwater Containing Deicers: Update. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In the early 1980s, airlines created loyalty programs to encourage passenger loyalty. Within the last decade, European airports followed suit, building their own loyalty programs by collaborating with airport vendors, such as restaurants, duty-free shops, and parking facilities, to provide value-added service to travelers. Airports in the United States have slowly started to embrace the trend by creating their own airport loyalty programs or collaborating with third-party loyalty program providers.
ACRP Synthesis 131: State of Airport Loyalty Programs, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of U.S. airport loyalty programs.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. State of Airport Loyalty Programs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Virtual ramp control (VRC) implementations have increasingly been occurring at airports over the past 5 years. More airport operators are interested in potentially implementing a VRC system as the technology proves viable.
ACRP Research Report 256: Virtual Airport Ramp Control Operations Facilities: A Guide, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, aims to develop a guide that provides U.S. airport operators and their stakeholders with a roadmap and key information for implementing VRC systems at airports of all sizes.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-69911-8
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Virtual Airport Ramp Control Operations Facilities: A Guide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Turf and vegetation management practices differ at airports because of each airport's unique terrain, geography, and vegetation. Although there is some guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration on airside applications for artificial turf, information on the means, methods, techniques, and practices airports use to manage airfield turf and vegetation is sparse.
ACRP Synthesis 128: Airfield Turf and Vegetation Management Practices, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, documents airfield practices for turf and vegetation management given the various constraints of staffing, equipment, safety, funding, climate, and regulations.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-69906-1
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Airfield Turf and Vegetation Management Practices. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Emissions from surface traffic can be a substantial portion of carbon emissions at an airport.
ACRP Synthesis 127: Airport Programs That Reduce Landside Vehicle Carbon Emissions, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides information on the use of airport programs or initiatives that reduce carbon emissions from vehicles accessing the airport.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-69905-3
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Airport Programs That Reduce Landside Vehicle Carbon Emissions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, airport operators had to develop strategies that maintained operations while ensuring employee safety and public health. Though not all airport-related tasks can be performed from remote worksites, many airports identified tasks that could be performed remotely.
ACRP Synthesis 126: Impacts of COVID-19 on Airport Work Models and Strategies, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides information on those airports that experimented in remote work, provides options for airports that did not participate in remote work, and identifies emerging trends.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-69901-0
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Impacts of COVID-19 on Airport Work Models and Strategies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has provided more than $169 million in funding for 690 research projects since its inception in 2005. In those 20 years, publications and products have undoubtedly gone out-of-date. In FY2021, the ACRP Oversight Committee, along with ACRP staff, recognized the need to review past products and make updates where appropriate.
ACRP Web-Only Document 55: ACRP Product Update: Prioritization of Policy and Planning Products, from ACRP, reviews past products and make updates to them where appropriate.
Supplemental to the document is Appendix A – Product Update Screening Spreadsheet.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. ACRP Product Update: Prioritization of Policy and Planning Products. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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