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Aviation Research at TRB
 The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. This page highlights recently released TRB reports, meeting announcements, requests for proposals, and other announcements related to aviation. In addition, it includes links to selected aviation research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. Finally, this page also highlights and provides links to TRB aviation-related programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s aviation-related research products. |
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TRB Aviation-Related Programs and Activities
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 Enhanced AEDT Modeling of Aircraft Arrival and Departure Profiles, Volume 1: Guidance September 21, 2018 TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web Only Document 36: Enhanced AEDT Modeling of Aircraft Arrival and Departure Profiles, Volume 1: Guidance supplements the Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT), which computes noise, emissions, and fuel burn as a result of aircraft operations. The guidance document provides users of AEDT with information about varying approaches to profile... |
 Enhanced AEDT Modeling of Aircraft Arrival and Departure Profiles, Volume 2: Research Report September 21, 2018 TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web Only Document 36: Enhanced AEDT Modeling of Aircraft Arrival and Departure Profiles, Volume 2: Research Report documents the approaches used to develop the Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) guidance outlined in ACRP Web Only Document 36: Volume 1 . AEDT computes noise, emissions, and fuel burn as a result of aircraft operations. Appe... |
 2019 TRB Annual Meeting: Register TodaySeptember 19, 2018 Register and make hotel reservations today for the TRB 98th Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Registration is required for all Annual Meeting attendees, including session speakers, poster presenters, and those who attend the exhibit hall, career fair, or any workshops. Full Registration also includes full access to: *Annual Meeting Interactive Program (available in Novem... |
 Guidebook on Building Airport Workforce CapacitySeptember 19, 2018 TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 186: Guidebook on Building Airport Workforce Capacity is the final product of a two-phase study to identify and evaluate workforce requirements for airports. Phase I, previously published as ACRP Web-Only Document 28 , gathered information to analyze current and future airport job requirements and identify mission-critical airpor... |
2018-2019 ACRP University Design Competition for Addressing Airport NeedsSeptember 17, 2018 TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) is sponsoring a national competition for U.S.-based undergraduate and/or graduate students to design innovative solutions that address airport issues and constraints to enhance the management, safety, capacity and efficiency of the nation’s airports. Winning design proposals receive cash awards, and first place winners present their work at the ... |
 Get Involved: Apply to Become an ACRP Ambassador by November 2, 2018September 17, 2018 TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program invites experienced airport industry professionals to become ACRP Ambassadors . Apply by November 2, 2018, to be considered for next year’s cohort. The ACRP Ambassador program provides experienced airport industry professionals with a prestigious opportunity to represent the ACRP program as a volunteer. Ambassadors tell the ACRP story, help practitione... |
 Laboratory Performance Testing of Warm-Mix Asphalt Mixtures for Airport PavementsSeptember 16, 2018 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a report that evaluates a laboratory rutting performance of warm mix asphalt (WMA) versus hot mix asphalt (HMA). In many paving projects, WMA has replaced HMA as a means of reducing environmental impacts. This report seeks to develop guidance for using WMA for commercial airport pavements. |
2019 TRB Annual Meeting: Feature Your Organization at the Careers in Motion Networking FairSeptember 16, 2018 TRB's second annual Careers in Motion Networking Fair takes place on January 13, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, during the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The event provides an opportunity for prospective employers from a wide range of sectors and modes to meet with transportation professionals interested in working for their organizatio... |
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 TRB Webinar: Understanding the Challenges of Airport Drinking Water Quality EventsSeptember 13, 2018 TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, October 11, 2018, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Synthesis 88 : Airport Community, Water Quality Events, and the Aircraft Drinking Water Rule. The synthesis explores how airports, airlines, ground service providers, and ice and food caterers as well as other food service establishme... |
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Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Problems
TRB's Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Problems searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) report series, Synthesis of Airport Practice.
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Technical Activities Standing Committees
TRB's Technical Activities Division provides a forum for transportation professionals in all modes and functions to identify research needs and to share information on research and issues of interest. The Division's staff of specialists in each mode and discipline work with a network of volunteers to carry out activities on behalf of TRB sponsors and the transportation community, including the TRB Annual Meeting, conferences and workshops, publications, visits to each state, and responses to inquiries. This network includes members and friends of over 200 standing committees, supplemented by designated TRB representatives in each state, over 150 universities, and 35 transit agencies. |
Research in Progress in this Subject Area
TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database now contains more than 11,900 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by federal and state departments of transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database also serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research. |
Research Needs in this Subject Area
An important function of TRB is to stimulate research that addresses concerns, issues, or problems facing the transportation community. In support of this function, TRB Technical Activities standing committees identify, develop, and disseminate research need statements (RNS) for use by practitioners, researchers, and others.
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Research Completed in this Subject Area
TRB's TRID is integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services ( TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation ( ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide. |
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