TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 89: Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers documents effective approaches and reviews best practices employed by airports to encourage different types of private ground transportation providers to run more environmentally friendly operations. The report summarizes the experiences of public-use airports with developing and implementing clean vehicle policies involving private ground transportation...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 185: Airport Air Quality Management 101 introduces airport employees who are not environmental specialists to airport air quality issues. Airport air quality management is highly complex and technical, with many different stakeholders, including the local community and local, state, and federal regulators. Larger airports have dedicated environmental experts; however, at most airports, environmental management is carried out by employees w...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) WebResource 4: Airport Air Quality Resource Library, together with its companion product, ACRP Research Report 185 : Airport Air Quality Management 101, introduces airport employees who are not environmental specialists to airport air quality issues. The library compiles the vast array of published research studies, resources, tools, standards, and advisory circulars pertaining to airport air quality—as well as four short videos demonstrating how to use s...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Synthesis 93: Sustainability's Role in Enhancing Airport Capacity. This report compiles information and examples that successfully demonstrate the value of building sustainability concepts into capacity-enhancing projects and describes additional resources and tools that provide guidance on how to select, apply, and communicate sustainability measures. The report highlights that sustainability efforts ...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 44: Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations Volume 4: Summary of AIP Grant Assurance Requirements contains a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the research conducted to develop a guidebook on Understanding FAA Airport Improvement Program (AIP) Grant Assurance Requirements. The results of this research include the Guidebook itself (Volume 1), Technical Appendices (Volume 2), which provides supplemental information on the requireme...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 44: Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations Volume 3: Research Report summarizes the research efforts and results of research conducted to develop a guidebook on Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Requirements. The results of this research include the Guidebook itself (Volume 1), Technical Appendices (Volume 2), which provides supplemental information on the requirements, and a PowerPoint presentation that can be adapted to the need...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 44: Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations Volume 2: Technical Appendices provides supplemental information for individuals desiring more in-depth understanding of the requirements. This volume contains six appendices providing supplemental information on the Grant Assurance requirements as well as resources and references. Accompanying this volume, ACRP has released: ACRP Research Report 184 : Executive Summary for the Guidebook ...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 44: Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations Volume 1: Guidebook provides a comprehensive summary of all the requirements included in the 39 Grant Assurances applicable to airport sponsors, who are owners or operators of the airport that execute the grant agreements. The Guidebook describes the requirements, identifies actions that are required, those that are prohibited, identifies exceptions, describes the duration and applicabili...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 184: Executive Summary for the Guidebook on Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations is the executive summary of the Guidebook on Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations (published as ACRP Web-Only Document 44, Volume 1) and explains each of the 39 grant assurances. This summary includes a matrix that outlines major aspects of the program such as duration and applicability, and it provides a list of related assurances. The matri...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)  Web-Only Document 33: Commercial Space Operations Noise and Sonic Boom Modeling and Analysis is the contractor’s final report on the methodology and development for ACRP Research Report 183: User Guides for Noise Modeling of Commercial Space Operations—RUMBLE and PCBoom. ACRP Research Report 183 provides guidance on using RUMBLE 2.0, which predicts rocket noise, and PCBoom4, which has been modified to predict sonic booms from commercial space operat...