Meet the Winners of TRB's 2021-2022 Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Awards

The Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program today announced nine winners of its annual ACRP Graduate Research Awards.The prestigious awards focus on applied research on airport and related aviation system issues to help the public sector improve the quality, reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. civil aviation system.

Now in its 15th year, the program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through ACRP and managed by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. The research of this year’s graduate student awardees focuses on a wide variety of topics including pavements, urban air mobility, and environmental sustainability.

The ACRP Graduate Research Award offers a $12,000 stipend as well as the opportunity for the student’s final research paper to be published in TRB’s journal, Transportation Research Record, and to present their work at TRB’s 2023 Annual Meeting.