Research Papers

10 Most Recent Reports from the Airports Cooperative Research Program

Title	Date	Description
Conducting Airport Peer Reviews	June 19, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 46: Conducting Airport Peer Reviews explores the range of peer review approaches being used by airport sponsors, identifies similar efforts outside the airport industry, and documents both effective practices and challenges in conducting peer review activities.
Procuring and Managing Professional Services for Airports	June 18, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 87: Procuring and Managing Professional Services for Airports provides guidance for procuring and managing professional services at airports for use by airport owners and operators. For the purposes of this report, professional services include planning, environmental, architectural and engineering, information technology, financial, legal, and other key professional services provided to airports. ...
Repairing and Maintaining Airport Parking Structures While in Use	June 13, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 47: Repairing and Maintaining Airport Parking Structures While in Use provides information on developing and implementing successful maintenance and repair strategies for in-use airport parking structures that involve the least impact on the airport patrons, revenue stream, and facility operations.
Environmental Optimization of Aircraft Departures: Fuel Burn, Emissions, and Noise	June 10, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 86: Environmental Optimization of Aircraft Departures: Fuel Burn, Emissions, and Noise explores a protocol for evaluating and optimizing aircraft departure procedures in terms of noise exposure, emissions, and fuel burn. Included with the print version of the report is CD-ROM that contains spreadsheet-based Departure Optimization Investigation Tool (DOIT) that allows users to understand and test tradeoffs among...
Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Airport Contracts	June 6, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 42: Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Airport Contracts provides examples of how airports might help drive environmental sustainability performance improvements at their facilities by integrating environmental sustainability concepts into contracts with contractors, suppliers, and vendors.
Issues with Airport Organization and Reorganization	May 30, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 40: Issues with Airport Organization and Reorganization examines organizational design, and current trends and practices in airport management.
Conducting Aeronautical Special Events at Airports	May 24, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 41: Conducting Aeronautical Special Events at Airports consolidates available information and lessons learned on how to successfully plan, organize, and conduct an aeronautical special event and restore normal operations after the event. For the purposes of this report, aeronautical special events are defined as those events that involve aviation activities or aircraft.
Airport Leadership Development Program	May 20, 2013	TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 75: Airport Leadership Development Program is designed to assist existing and future airport leaders to assess, obtain, and refine airport-industry leadership skills. The program includes forms for a full 360-degree individual assessment of core leadership traits. A complete facilitator guide with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and participant workbooks and materials are also...
Environmental Management System Development Process	May 9, 2013	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.
Guidebook for Preparing Airport Emissions Inventories for State Implementation Plans	May 7, 2013	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 progressively more complex, requiring increasingly detailed input data that...