ACRP Impacts on Practice – Improving Airport Curbside and Roadway Operations

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impacts on Practice explores how the planning staff at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) applied analytical tools presented in ACRP Report 40: Airport Curbside and Terminal Area Roadway Operations to help improve airport operations and travelers’ experiences.

Using the tools presented in this report, planning staff at YOW identified the optimal combination of improvements to increase the airport’s ability to process the vehicular traffic demand. The airport has implemented one of the improvements and is planning to deploy other recommendations in coordination with additional terminal area improvement strategies.