Suggested Citation:
"Quick-Start Guide: Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27879.
The Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit was developed as part of ACRP Project 02-92, “Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans at General Aviation Airports” to provide general aviation (GA) airport managers—often limited in resources and staff—with the information, tools, and processes necessary to enhance resilience cost-effectively and efficiently. Resiliency plans provide foundational information for GA airports to begin to develop and mature their resilience planning and risk mitigation. The materials in the Resiliency Toolkit are intended to be scalable and implemented based on available personnel and resources and where an airport is in its resiliency-planning journey.
The Resiliency Toolkit will take users through the basic National Preparedness System process on a step-by-step basis. Its contents are integrated with each step, as depicted in Figure 1.
The toolkit consists of the following files:
Resilience Handbook: A manual that introduces the concept of resilience, reviews the research team’s approach, explains why resilience matters for GA airports, and describes the Resiliency Toolkit.
Tools: Resources included in the Resiliency Toolkit contain background information, instructions, and suggestions for how each could be used (see Table 1).
Toolkit Brochure (PDF): A concise and visually pleasing brochure, which can be circulated to airport stakeholders, that will explain the Resiliency Toolkit and the benefits of engaging in resiliency planning for GA airports.
Toolkit Overview (PowerPoint): A PowerPoint presentation stakeholders may download that will walk through the different tools available in the Resiliency Toolkit, the appropriate situations in which to use them, and how to implement resiliency planning in a cost-effective manner.
Toolkit Quick-Start Guide: A step-by-step guide for stakeholders interested in jumping straight into resiliency planning, including directions for using all the tools in the Resiliency Toolkit.
Suggested Citation:
"Quick-Start Guide: Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27879.
Figure 1. Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit integrated with the National Preparedness System process. (LOA 5 letter of agreement.)
Table 1. Contents of toolkit.
Step
Tool
Resource
File Type
Description
Start
A
Resource Review
Searchable, filterable Excel file
This tool provides more than 70 resources for resilience planning. It includes key takeaways, notes, and key themes to help users narrow their search.
1
B
Overview of Identified Shocks and Stressors
PDF
This resource provides an overview of relevant shocks and stressors for GA airports based on interviews conducted with GA airports and additional research.
1
C
Risk-Assessment Analysis Tool
Excel file
This tool is used to identify airport shocks and stressors, prioritize them, and review their impacts.
2
D
Mitigating Actions to Address Shocks and Stressors
PDF
This resource provides best practices, strategies, and mitigating actions gathered by the research team during the research team’s interviews with GA airports to address shocks and stressors.
Suggested Citation:
"Quick-Start Guide: Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27879.
Step
Tool
Resource
File Type
Description
2
E
Case Studies
PDF
The case studies provide more in-depth information from GA airports’ best practices to further identify resources needed to address shocks and stressors.
3
F
Emergency Communications Plan Template
Word file
This tool provides a template for compiling contact information that airport personnel communicate with daily and during
3
G
Airport Emergency Plan Template
Word file
emergencies. This tool is intended to aid in user methodology and approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from shocks and stressors.
3
H
Incident Mitigation Plan Template
Word file
This tool is intended to aid in user methodology and approach to identifying potential risks and developing strategies to protect staff, tenants, stakeholders, and property from similar events.
3
I
Stakeholder Engagement Checklist Template
Word file
This tool is meant to aid in user methodology and approach to interacting and communicating with stakeholders.
3
J
Incident Command System Template
Word file
This resource provides an overview of the Incident Command System and a template to build the structure when an incident occurs.
4
K
Communications and Collaboration Guidelines
PDF
This resource is meant to aid in user methodology and approach to communicating and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders before, during, and after an incident.
4
L
Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Letter of Agreement Template
Word file
This resource is meant to aid in user approach to communicating and coordinating with air rescue and firefighting first-responder personnel during and after an incident.
5
M
Airport Resiliency Stress-Test Exercise-in-a-Box
Word file
This tool aims to provide resources for GA airports to conduct a resilience stress test of their emergency plans, policies, and procedures.
6
N
Incident After-Action and Corrective-Actions Template
Word file
This tool provides a template for incident after-action meetings and a corrective-actions template.
Suggested Citation:
"Quick-Start Guide: Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27879.
Suggested Citation:
"Quick-Start Guide: Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27879.
Suggested Citation:
"Quick-Start Guide: Self-Directed Resiliency Toolkit." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Creating Self-Directed Resiliency Plans for General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27879.
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.
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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