Awareness of the vulnerability of the country’s existing electrical system has increased with the frequency of short-term blackouts and long-term utility outages. Power outages impact airport operations by causing flight delays, extended layovers, disruptions in cargo operations, loss of revenue, and limitations in airports’ ability to provide emergency support. ACRP WebResource 19: Airport Microgrid Implementation Tools provides tools that can be used by airports to analyze the feasibility of implementi...

Through data analytics, airports can perform valuable tasks such as better visualizing their data to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their operations, developing predictive analysis, backing up their management decisions with hard data, identifying operational inefficiencies, and leveraging historical information and/or real-time data to better plan for the future. ACRP WebResource 18: Implementing and Improving Data Analytic Capabilities in Airports , from TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research P...

In recent years, as air travel has increased worldwide, attention to the global spread of communicable diseases via air travel has also grown. While considerable research has been undertaken on the topic, the information is disparate and not often presented in a manner that allows airports to easily develop a comprehensive response. ACRP WebResource 22: Airports and Communicable Diseases: Preparedness and Response , from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, synthesizes existing materials across th...

Many of the country’s smallest airports may not have qualified onsite management or staff familiar with operational needs and risks to safely manage an airfield electrical system, and there is a lack of cost-effective training on basic airfield electrical system maintenance available for small airports. ACRP WebResource 20: Safe Maintenance of Airfield Electrical Systems for Small Airports , from TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides guidelines and tools to help small airports recognize ha...

When airports create an environment where their people can improve current processes and adapt to rapid changes in the industry—particularly when they focus on solving problems for customers—great advances can be made. Organizations that support a culture of innovation also reap the benefits of improved morale and increased motivation among their staff. ACRP WebResource 16: Playbook for Developing a Culture of Innovation at Airports , from TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides best practic...

Common use programs at many airports have been limited to a few core information technology systems and may have struggled to provide the needed level of customer service to passengers, airlines, and other stakeholders. ACRP WebResource 17: Developing a Holistic Airport Common Use Program , from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides guidance on how airport operators can expand the scope of common use beyond the traditional IT systems and incorporate new systems and processes to gain more o...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 15: Assessment Tool for Transformation in Wireless Connectivity is an assessment tool that supports the method outlined in ACRP Research Report 242: Transformation in Wireless Connectivity: Guide to Prepare Airports . The WebResource provides a dynamic interface to input (1) the current status of the wireless technology implementation at an airport and (2) the intended goals regarding the development of the airport's wireless infrastructure/...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program’s ACRP WebResource 14: Tools to Assess Airport Programs for Travelers with Disabilities and Older Adults summarizes strategies from ACRP Research Report 239: Assessing Airport Programs for Travelers with Disabilities and Older Adults that can help airport operators develop or enhance programs targeting the needs of travelers with disabilities and older adults. Video interviews with subject matter experts provide firsthand perspectives from airports and industr...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 13: Airside Planning, Design, Construction, Operations, and Maintenance is designed to provide aviation professionals with a convenient location to find airside-related resources. ACRP WebResource 13 is an electronic library, which contains more than 600 resources cataloged and tagged, all of which can be searched and filtered. The resources are mostly reports in PDF format, but there are additional resources in other formats such as webpage...

The relationship between a region’s economy and its air service is not well understood. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 12: Air Service Development and Regional Economic Activity provides resources to help airports and their communities estimate how changes in air service could positively or negatively impact their economy. Methods for communicating the contribution of air service to local employment and economic activity are also provided. The WebResource is accompanied b...