Aviation is undergoing a transformation. Advancements in technology are enabling innovations in regional and on-demand aviation. Many challenges are currently being addressed, including community acceptance, safety, equity, issues around planning and implementation, airspace, and operations. Transportation Insights 4: On-Demand Aviation Services for Mobility, Logistics, Emergency Response, and Humanitarian Use Cases , from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, summarizes an ACRP Insight Event held ...

As airport leaders look to the future, it is important to consider how airports will fund their operations and investments and balance the risks in providing services to their customers and users while maintaining sound balance sheets. Transportation Insights 3: The Future of Airport Finance , from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides a summary of an in-person discussion forum convened by ACRP for aviation leaders and stakeholders to identify new and emerging finance-related issues, ...

With a major drop in U.S. transit ridership since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an increased understanding of infectious disease in confined spaces and the role of droplets and particles in transmission has been increasingly important to the bus industry. A combination of experiments, models, and simulations in fluid dynamics has been employed to understand how aerosols move in spaces containing people. TRB's Transportation Insights 2: Air Quality in Transit Buses provides a summary of a June 2022 ...

For years, transportation systems, including aviation, have operated within a framework that has resulted in systemic inequality and even overt racism. To address this, airports have begun implementing new organizational dynamics and approaches. TRB's Transportation Insights 1: Systemic Inequality in the Airport Industry: Exploring the Racial Divide provides a summary of an in-person TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Insight Event. The event identified common manifestations of systemic ineq...