TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 44: Environmental Management System Development Process provides background on the framework of an environmental management system (EMS), explores similarities and differences of the various approaches to an EMS, explains the EMS development process, and highlights lessons learned by airports that have developed an EMS.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 84: Guidebook for Preparing Airport Emissions Inventories for State Implementation Plans is designed to assist in the preparation of airport emissions inventory component of a State Implementation Plan. The Guidebook offers a basic, intermediate, and advanced approach for preparation of an airport emissions inventory. Each approach is pro...

The TRB Aviation Group has released the latest issue of its periodic newsletter. This issue solicits assistance in identifying aviation and other transportation professionals who would benefit from participating in the Aviation Group; seeks nomination for the 2014 Francis X. McKelvey Award; recommends that you mark your calendar to attend the 2014 TRB Annual Meeting; solicits interest in the Yo...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 39: Airport Wildlife Population Management provides direct wildlife population control techniques for reducing wildlife collisions with aircraft. In addition, the report summarizes the ecological foundation of wildlife population control and management. ACRP Synthesis 39 is designed to supplement ACRP Synthesis 23 : Bird Harassmen...

TRB’s Aviation Group has released a brochure that highlights why and how to get involved in TRB aviation-related technical committee activities. The technical committees are communities of individuals who share a common interest and expertise. Each committee proposes research, shares research findings, sponsors a broad range of activities, and provides a forum for professionals to discuss today...

TRB’s Aviation Group has released a brochure that highlights why and how to get involved in TRB aviation-related technical committee activities. The technical committees are communities of individuals who share a common interest and expertise. Each committee proposes research, shares research findings, sponsors a broad range of activities, and provides a forum for professionals to discuss today...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 9: Enhanced Modeling of Aircraft Taxiway Noise, Volume 2: Aircraft Taxi Noise Database and Development Process documents the procedures developed and employed in the creation of a taxi noise database for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Integrated Noise Model and Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT). The AED...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 83: Assessing Opportunities for Alternative Fuel Distribution Programs consists of a guidebook and toolkit designed to help airports introduce and market alternative fuels to their airport community that includes tenants and consumers off airport. Alternative fuels considered include alternative jet fuel, green diesel, biodiesel, ethanol,...

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impact on Practice describes how Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA) and Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BNIA) have developed and implemented IROPS plans based on ACRP Report 65: Guidebook for Airport Irregular Operations (IROPS) Contingency Planning (2012). Daniel Rak, terminal services supervisor for FWA, noted th...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has produced an updated brochure that explores various aspects of the program and provides information on the different ways individuals can become involved in ACRP.  ACRP is an industry-driven, applied research program that develops near-term, practical solutions to problems faced by airport operators.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 18: Buy America Requirements for Federally Funded Airports discusses the legislative history pertaining to Buy America, the applicable federal regulations, and how it has been applied at airports. The report includes suggested guidance that airport counsel may find useful as it pertains to airport construction and equipment...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 82: Preparing Peak Period and Operational Profiles—Guidebook describes a process and includes software for converting annual airport activity forecasts into forecasts of daily or hourly peak period activity. The two Excel-based software modules are designed to help estimate current and future design day aircraft and passenger operation le...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 14: Guidelines for Preparing Peak Period and Operational Profiles documents the research effort that produced ACRP Report 82 : Preparing Peak Period and Operational Profiles—Guidebook, which describes a process and includes software for converting annual airport activity forecasts into forecasts of daily or hourly peak-period a...

TRB’s Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Report 11: Technical Assessment of Dry Ice Limits on Aircraft describes a technical approach to determining the maximum quantity of dry ice that may be safely carried aboard aircraft. The report includes guidelines for helping to determine safe limits for carriage of dry ice on commercial airplanes and a CD-ROM-based software tool d...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 17: 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.

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impact on Practice describes the Ambassador program, one of several dissemination initiatives that are strengthening ACRP’s connection to the airport industry. In their first year, ACRP Ambassadors engaged the aviation community through 11 presentations; 13 exhibitions; and the distribution of more than 600 ACRP reports,...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 19: Legal Issues Related to Developing Safety Management Systems and Safety Risk Management at U.S. Airports explores the basics of a safety management systems (SMS); discusses the concept of a “just culture;” highlights efforts to implement SMS at airports and in other industries such as maritime, patient safety, and oil a...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 16: Legal Aspects of Airport Programs is a digest of the background and status of ACRP Project 11-01, Legal Aspects of Airport Programs.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released its annual report that provides background on the program, a listing of products developed under the program over the last 7 years, a summary of the status of projects in progress or completed, and more.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 17: State and Federal Regulations that May Affect Initiatives to Reduce Airports’ GHG Emissions addresses issues that are relevant to implementing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures at airports. The report also provides a compilation of carbon reduction initiatives at airports that distinguish between green building r...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 79: Evaluating Airfield Capacity is designed to assist airport planners with airfield and airspace capacity evaluations at a wide range of airports. The report describes available methods to evaluate existing and future airfield capacity; provides guidance on selecting an appropriate capacity analysis method; offers best practices in asse...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2300 consists of 18 papers that explore airport surface safety; infection-spreading links in an air traffic network; intercity passenger rail access to airports; reducing aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions; valuing aviation noise with the contingent valuation method; characterization of surface and aloft wi...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 78: Airport Ground Support Equipment (GSE): Emission Reduction Strategies, Inventory, and Tutorial is designed to help assess and mitigate the contribution of ground support equipment (GSE) to air quality impacts at airports. The report presents an inventory of GSE at airports, identifies potential strategies to reduce emissions from powe...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 81: Winter Design Storm Factor Determination for Airports identifies the relevant factors in defining a winter design storm for use in sizing airport deicing runoff management systems and components. The guidebook also provides a decision support tool for identifying an appropriate winter design storm for an airport-specific project; a re...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 38: Expediting Aircraft Recovery at Airports includes suggested procedures to help airports expedite the recovery of disabled aircraft that are designed to avoid injury to personnel, damage to airport equipment, and secondary damage to the aircraft. For the purposes of the report, a disable aircraft is defined as on that is unable to m...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 77: Guidebook for Developing General Aviation Airport Business Plans is designed to help airports develop and implement an airport business plan and maximize financial self-sufficiency. The guidebook identifies the role, value, and the compelling reasons for having an airport business plan as it applies to all sizes of airports; high...

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impact on Practice describes how information included in  ACRP Report 47: Guidebook for Developing and Leasing Airport Property was used by the Houston Airport System to complete its due diligence of identifing stakeholders and impacts in allowing Hobby Airport to offer international flights. The Impacts on Pra...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 80: Guidebook for Incorporating Sustainability into Traditional Airport Projects describes sustainability and its potential benefits, and identifies different applications of sustainable initiatives in traditional airport construction and everyday maintenance projects. The printed version of the report includes a CD-ROM that includes an a...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 76: Addressing Uncertainty about Future Airport Activity Levels in Airport Decision Making provides a systems analysis methodology that augments standard airport master planning and strategic planning approaches. The methodology includes a set of tools for improving the understanding and application of risk and uncertainty in air traffic ...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 74: Application of Enterprise Risk Management at Airports summarizes the principles and benefits of enterprise risk management (ERM) and its application to airports. The report discusses implementation of the iterative ERM process, including roles and responsibilities from airport governing boards to all staff members. The project that de...