TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web Only Document 12: Risk Assessment of Proposed ARFF Standards explores air carrier passenger aircraft accidents to help determine if changes to Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) standards would have reduced the number of fatalities or serious injuries that resulted from past accidents. The report compares standards set forth by the Fed...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 11: A Comprehensive Development Plan for a Multimodal Noise and Emissions Model explores development of a tool that would allow for the assessment of the noise and air quality impacts on the population from multiple transportation sources, assess the total costs and impacts, and assist in the design and implementation of mitiga...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 10 is Appendix A: Research Documentation to ACRP Report 41 : Guide to the Decision-Making Tool for Evaluating Passenger Self-Tagging, which provides the information and tools, included on an accompanying CD-ROM, necessary for an airport or airline to determine the appropriateness of pursuing passenger self-tagging should it be ...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 9: Enhanced Modeling of Aircraft Taxiway Noise—Scoping explores ways to model airport noise from aircraft taxi operations and examines a plan for implementation of a taxi noise prediction capability into the Federal Aviation Administration's integrated noise model in the short term and into its aviation environmental design too...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 8: Alternative Aircraft Anti-Icing Formulations with Reduced Aquatic Toxicity and Biochemical Oxygen Demand explores the aquatic toxicity and biological oxygen demand state of the art, components, and promising alternative formulations of deicing and anti-icing products. The report also examines the performance; efficiency; mat...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 7: How Proposed ARFF Standards Would Impact Airports explores the potential cost implications for airports of implementing proposed airport rescue and fire fighting (ARFF) regulations that would be more closely aligned with voluntary consensus standards promulgated by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Nation...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 6: Evaluation and Selection of Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods reviews pertinent literature and research findings related to various project delivery methods for airport projects. It contains definitions of project delivery methods and discusses the existing selection approaches commonly used by airports. ACRP Web-Only...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 5: Development of a Guidebook for Managing Small Airports describes the research process related to the development of ACRP Report 16: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports .

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 4: Contractor’s Final Report for ACRP RRD 6: Guidance for Identifying and Mitigating Approach Lighting System Hazards provides additional information on the project that developed ACRP Research Results Digest 6 , which explores the results of the research on approach lighting system (ALS) hazard identification and mitigation te...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 3: Formulations for Aircraft and Airfield Deicing and Anti-Icing: Aquatic Toxicity and Biochemical Oxygen Demand is an interim report on a project that is exploring the environmental characteristics of aircraft and pavement deicers and anti-icers.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 2 contains appendices A through F to ACRP Report 11: Guidebook on Preparing Airport GHG Emissions Inventories .  The appendices titles are as follows: Appendix A-Reasons for Developing GHG Inventories Appendix B-Emissions and Sources Appendix C-Methods for Calculating GHG Emissions Appendix D-Methods for Calculating CO2 E...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 1: Analysis and Recommendations for Developing Integrated Airport Information Systems is a summary of the efforts associated with the development of ACRP Report 13: Integrating Airport Information Systems .  ACRP Report 13 is designed to help airport mangers and information technology professionals address issues associate...

The Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has produced an updated brochure that explores various aspects of the program and provides information on the different ways individuals can become involved in ACRP. ACRP is an industry-driven, applied research program that develops near-term, practical solutions to problems faced by airport operators.