Research Papers

10 Most Recent Reports from the Airports Cooperative Research Program

Title	Date	Description
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...
Airport Wildlife Population Management	April 25, 2013	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...
TRB Aviation Group Brochure	April 22, 2013	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’s and tomorrow’s aviation and airport issues. TRB’s Aviation Group...
Enhanced Modeling of Aircraft Taxiway Noise, Volume 2: Aircraft Taxi Noise Database and Development Process	April 19, 2013	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 Highway Administration’s Integrated Noise Model and Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT). The AEDT is currently under development. ...
Assessing Opportunities for Alternative Fuel Distribution Programs	April 15, 2013	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, compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and...
ACRP Impacts on Practice--April 2013: Contingency Planning for Unexpected Passenger Delays	April 9, 2013	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 that the value of ACRP Report 65 is that it enables diverse airport...
Airport Cooperative Research Program Brochure	March 24, 2013	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.