TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 22: Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices is a digest of the progress and status of ACRP Project 11-03, Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 119: Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System—Characteristics, Viability, and Implementation Options identifies the features of an airport sustainability rating system, identifies options for implementing the rating system and a certification program, and evaluates the viability of their implementation and adoption.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 20: Estimating the Economic Impact of Air Cargo Operations at Airports, Part 1: User’s Guidebook and Part 2: Research Report provides guidance and tools to practitioners who estimate the economic value of air cargo facilities and operations to their communities and regions.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 117: Airport Escalators and Moving Walkways—Cost-Savings and Energy Reduction Technologies provides a systematic approach to identifying, evaluating, and selecting cost-saving and energy reduction technologies for airport escalators and moving walkways. A spreadsheet tool that supplements the report is bound in the hardcopy of the report as CRP-CD-156. The CD-ROM is also available for download from TRB’s website as an ISO image. Links to the ISO im...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web Only Document 18: Airport Capital Improvements: Developing a Cost-Estimating Model and Database describes the research process to develop and test a cost estimating model and database intended for use during airport capital planning. The guidebook and spreadsheet tool are available online.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 120: Airport Capital Improvements: A Business Planning and Decision-Making Approach consist of a guidebook and a spreadsheet-based cost-estimating model to assist practitioners with estimating the cost of construction projects regularly proposed in an airport’s capital improvement plan. The spreadsheet model requires 32-bit Microsoft Excel 2007 or later.  ACRP Web Only Document 18: Airport Capital Improvements: Developing a Cost-Estimating Mod...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 115: Understanding Microbial Biofilms in Receiving Waters Impacted by Airport Deicing Activities provides an introduction to the factors than can affect biofilm growth sometimes observed in streams that receive airport runoff containing deicers.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 19: Integrated Noise Model Accuracy for General Aviation Aircraft assesses the predictive accuracy of the Integrated Noise Model, identifies causes for deviations between actual and predicted values, identifies potential solutions to improve the model’s accuracy, and describes the steps needed for implementation

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impacts on Practice highlights the value of ACRP Synthesis 38: Expediting Aircraft Recovery at Airports , a report that details guidance for expediting the recovery of disabled aircraft. Specifically, officials at John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California applied ACRP Synthesis 38 to help plan for aircraft recovery operations.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 116: Guidebook for Successfully Assessing and Managing Risks for Airport Capital and Maintenance Projects establishes a step-by-step process for evaluating and managing risk for capital and maintenance projects that can be scaled depending on the complexity of the project. Chapter 8 is structured to be a quick user’s guide.