Many of the country’s smallest airports may not have qualified onsite management or staff familiar with operational needs and risks to safely manage an airfield electrical system, and there is a lack of cost-effective training on basic airfield electrical system maintenance available for small airports. ACRP WebResource 20: Safe Maintenance of Airfield Electrical Systems for Small Airports , from TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides guidelines and tools to help small airports recognize ha...

When airports create an environment where their people can improve current processes and adapt to rapid changes in the industry—particularly when they focus on solving problems for customers—great advances can be made. Organizations that support a culture of innovation also reap the benefits of improved morale and increased motivation among their staff. ACRP WebResource 16: Playbook for Developing a Culture of Innovation at Airports , from TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides best practic...

Common use programs at many airports have been limited to a few core information technology systems and may have struggled to provide the needed level of customer service to passengers, airlines, and other stakeholders. ACRP WebResource 17: Developing a Holistic Airport Common Use Program , from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides guidance on how airport operators can expand the scope of common use beyond the traditional IT systems and incorporate new systems and processes to gain more o...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 15: Assessment Tool for Transformation in Wireless Connectivity is an assessment tool that supports the method outlined in ACRP Research Report 242: Transformation in Wireless Connectivity: Guide to Prepare Airports . The WebResource provides a dynamic interface to input (1) the current status of the wireless technology implementation at an airport and (2) the intended goals regarding the development of the airport's wireless infrastructure/...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program’s ACRP WebResource 14: Tools to Assess Airport Programs for Travelers with Disabilities and Older Adults summarizes strategies from ACRP Research Report 239: Assessing Airport Programs for Travelers with Disabilities and Older Adults that can help airport operators develop or enhance programs targeting the needs of travelers with disabilities and older adults. Video interviews with subject matter experts provide firsthand perspectives from airports and industr...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 13: Airside Planning, Design, Construction, Operations, and Maintenance is designed to provide aviation professionals with a convenient location to find airside-related resources. ACRP WebResource 13 is an electronic library, which contains more than 600 resources cataloged and tagged, all of which can be searched and filtered. The resources are mostly reports in PDF format, but there are additional resources in other formats such as webpage...

The relationship between a region’s economy and its air service is not well understood. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 12: Air Service Development and Regional Economic Activity provides resources to help airports and their communities estimate how changes in air service could positively or negatively impact their economy. Methods for communicating the contribution of air service to local employment and economic activity are also provided. The WebResource is accompanied b...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 11: Construction Safety and Phasing Plans provides airport personnel, consulting engineers/designers, and contractors with a detailed process to improve the development, implementation, and management of construction safety and phasing plans (CSPPs) and safety plan compliance documents (SPCDs) for airport construction projects.

New and emerging technologies have the potential to revolutionize the aviation industry, particularly in the fields of customer service, safety, and operational efficiency on the ground and in-flight. However, these technologies bring disruptions that can be difficult for airports to prepare for. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 10: Periodic Publication on Transformative Technologies at Airports aims to help by posting periodic articles on transformative technologies antici...

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource 9: Airport Emergency Plan Development Tool is an online tool that produces airport-specific airport emergency plans (AEPs) in a format consistent with the Federal Aviation Administration’s Advisory Circular 150/5200-31C. The tool provides a user-friendly, sequential, and interactive format to create the plan, and includes introductory videos and question-specific help to enable accurate responses.