TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 126: A Guidebook for Increasing Diverse and Small Business Participation in Airport Business Opportunities is a compilation of industry best practices and other measures airports can use to attract and enhance participation in their contract opportunities.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 125: Balancing Airport Stormwater and Bird Hazard Management helps airports identify and evaluate stormwater management and bird mitigation practices. An accompanying CD-ROM tool is aimed to assist airports with evaluating bird strike risks and stormwater management decisions. The CD is also available for download from TRB’s website as an...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 123: A Guidebook for Airport Winter Operations provides direction to airport facilities as they prepare for, operate during, and recover from disruptive winter events. The report also provides tips for managing the overall passenger experience and provides guidance on the levels of investment needed to implement an effective winter operat...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 122: Innovative Airport Responses to Threatened and Endangered Species provides solutions to help airport industry practitioners address the presence of federally listed species at or near airports. Accompanying the primer is Airport Toolbox for ACRP Report 122, which is designed to help facilitate understanding among airports and agencie...

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 Exce...

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) 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 ...

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.

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) Report 114: Guidebook for Through-the-Fence Operations examines the financial, operational, regulatory, legal, and other issues associated with through-the-fence (TTF) operations. The report includes supplemental worksheets  for assessing TTF operations, discussed in Chapter 5, and a PowerPoint template for TTF operations.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 113: Guidebook on General Aviation Facility Planning provides guidance for planning airport facilities that accommodate general aviation aircraft. The guidance is designed to help airport practitioners plan flexible and cost-effective facilities that are responsive to industry needs.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 112: Airport Terminal Incident Response Planning summarizes the development and use of a tool that creates and maintains integrated incident response plans that address hazards in and around airport terminals. The Airport Terminal Incident Response Plan (TIRP) tool, available on the CD-ROM that accompanies the report, assists in the devel...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 111: A Guidebook for Airport-Airline Consortiums provides decision-making guidance for airport operators and airline representatives who are responsible for agreements related to facilities, equipment, systems, and services and who may be interested in evaluating, advocating, or forming consortiums to provide needed services.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 110: Evaluating Impacts of Sustainability Practices on Airport Operations and Maintenance provides guidance on using an evaluation process and cost–benefit tool to evaluate lifecycle costs of sustainability practices being considered by airport operators. Accompanying the report, CD-149: Evaluation Process and Cost–Benefit Tool contains s...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 109: Improving Terminal Design to Increase Revenue Generation Related to Customer Satisfaction explores innovative airport planning and terminal design that promotes profitable revenue generation and customer satisfaction at a variety of airport sizes and types. The handbook includes consideration of how to potentially improve the airport...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 108: Guidebook for Energy Facilities Compatibility with Airports and Airspace describes processes to plan, develop, and construct energy production and transmission technologies at and around airports. The guidebook emphasizes aviation safety practices in order to help ensure a safe and efficient national air system while still helping to...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 107: Development of a Runway Veer-Off Location Distribution Risk Assessment and Reporting Template explores a method to assess the risk of lateral runway excursions, also known as veer-offs, and suggests ways to improve veer-off incident/accident reporting. In addition to the report, this project also developed the Lateral Runway Safety A...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 106: Being Prepared for IROPS: A Business-Planning and Decision-Making Approach describes a process to help justify airport planning, and funding decisions (capital, and operations and maintenance) related to supporting irregular operations (IROPS) contingency planning. The report presents a structured approach to quantifying the lifecycl...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 105: Guidelines for Ensuring Longevity in Airport Sound Insulation Programs provides best practices in all phases of a sound insulation program to reduce or eliminate future deterioration issues.  ACRP Report 105 complements ACRP Report 89 : Guidelines for Airport Sound Insulation Programs. The contractor’s final report , which asses...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 104: Defining and Measuring Aircraft Delay and Airport Capacity Thresholds offers guidance to help airports understand, select, calculate, and report measures of delay and capacity. The report describes common metrics, identifies data sources, recommends metrics based on an airport’s needs, and suggests ways to potentially improve metrics.