TRB conducted a webinar on February 11, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that introduced airport operators and emergency planners to mutual aid agreements. This webinar provided 1.5 Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives.
Click here to view the recorded webinar.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Advisory Circular “Airport Emergency Plan” places increased attention on mutual aid agreements, including the process by which they are created and the roles of mutual aid partners in Airport Emergency Plans (AEPs). Webinar presenters highlighted management practices that may be used to establish and help sustain multi-airport mutual aid programs at state, regional, and national levels.
Webinar Presenters
- James Smith, Smith-Woolwine Associates Inc.
- Fred McCosby, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
- Todd Haines, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Moderated by: Mark A. Crosby,
Portland International Airport
Webinar Outline
- PART 1: ACRP Synthesis 45: Model Mutual Aid Agreements for Airports
- Types of, and patterns found in, mutual aid agreements
- Basic generic models for sound agreements
- Examples of specialized agreements
- Checklist of essential and desirable features in airport mutual aid agreements
- PART 2: ACRP Report 73: Airport-to-Airport Mutual Aid Programs
- Formal and informal mutual aid agreements among airports in the event of community wide disasters
- Benefits associated with an airport-to-airport mutual aid program (MAP)
- Different considerations when setting up an airport-to-airport MAP
- PART 3: Question and answer session
The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe what makes an effective mutual aid agreement between an airport and a mutual aid partner and how to create and implement such an agreement;
- Explain the benefits of a formal mutual aid program; and
- Implement and sustain a mutual aid program.
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Registration Information
This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar.
Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives
The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) is making 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for A.A.E. If you are an A.A.E. and would like to apply for CEUs for this webinar, visit www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about A.A.E. continuing education units, please contact
accreditation@aaae.org.
American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits
This webinar is approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.
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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at
RGillum@nas.edu.
This Summary Last Modified On: 8/20/2014