TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 96: Apron Planning and Design Guidebook addresses best practices for planning, designing, and marking apron areas for all sizes and types of airports in the United States. The apron planning and design considerations include facility geometrics, aircraft maneuvering, apron/airfield access points, operational characteristics, markings, lighting, and aircraft fleets. In addition, the types of aprons include terminal area, deicing, general aviation, c...

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impacts on Practice highlights how the Fort Wayne International Airport in Indiana used ACRP Report 28: Marketing Guidebook for Small Airports to create a marketing plan.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 93: Operational and Business Continuity Planning for Prolonged Airport Disruptions provides a guidebook and software tool for airport operators to assist, plan, and prepare for disruptive and catastrophic events that have the potential for causing prolonged airport closure resulting in adverse impacts to the airport and to the local, regional, and national economy. The software tool is available in a CD-ROM format and is intended to help develop an...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 92: Guidebook to Creating a Collaborative Environment Between Airport Operations and Maintenance provides tools and strategies that are designed to help potentially increase and improve collaboration between operations and maintenance staffs at airports. The contractor's executive summary and final report , which documents the research related to the development of ACRP Report 92, are also available online. 

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impacts on Practice explores how the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority applied ACRP Report 30: Reference Guide on Understanding Common Use at Airports to develop new business models for common use systems at its airport.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 21 is a compilation of U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airport legal determinations and opinion letters through December 31, 2012. The compilation, available in a CD format, includes indexes designed to facilitate the search for specific questions and issues. ACRP LRD 21 updates and supersedes ACRP Legal Research Digest 4, Compilation of DOT and FAA Airport Legal Determinati...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 49: Helping New Maintenance Hires Adapt to the Airport Operating Environment highlights comprehensive safety and security training resources as well as successful practices for new maintenance hires at general aviation airports.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 48: How Airports Measure Customer Service Performance examines the strategic importance of customer service and how airports are measuring the quality of customer service.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 91: Infectious Disease Mitigation in Airports and on Aircraft offers guidance for mitigating the risk of disease spread via droplet, airborne, and contact at airports and aboard aircraft.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 20: Airport Responsibility for Wildlife Management compiles the laws and regulations pertaining to wildlife hazard management and discusses mitigation techniques applicable to airport operators.