TRB Webinar: Business Planning Approaches for Disruptive or Irregular Airport Operations

TRB conducted a webinar on June 18, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that featured research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on business planning for disruptive or irregular airport operations. Webinar presenters described best practices and practical applications in adopting a plan for sustained operational resiliency in the face of disruptions. Ways to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of such a plan were also discussed.

This webinar was organized by the Airport Cooperative Research Program.

This webinar provided 1.5 Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives. This webinar was approval by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits.

TRB Webinar: Business Planning Approaches for Disruptive or Irregular Airport Operations from The National Academies.

Webinar Presenters

• Scott Corzine, Risk Solutions International
• Joakim Karlsson, MCR Federal LLC

Moderator: Richard Bloom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


Webinar Outline

1. Overview of committee activities and ways to get involved
2. ACRP Report 93: Operational and Business Continuity Planning for Prolonged Airport Disruptions
• The business continuity tools developed for airports
• Why airports should make operational resilience a priority initiative
3. ACRP Report 106: Being Prepared for IROPS: A Business Planning and Decision-Making Approach
• Overview of a business planning approach for measuring the value of airport improvements intended to mitigate the impacts of irregular operations (IROPS)
• Using a decision theory approach to define a set of effectives criteria within three categories: Strategic challenges, user benefits, and tactical complexity
4. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.


Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify the differences in the objectives, applications, and utility of emergency response management and business continuity management;
• Summarize the business continuity process, what it accomplishes, and who should facilitate the process at airports; and
• Describe how to evaluate the value of projects that airports implement to reduce the disruptive impact of irregular operations using the ACRP-developed decision support software.

Registration Information
This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar.


Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives
The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) is making 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for A.A.E. If you are an A.A.E. and would like to apply for CEUs for this webinar, visit www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about A.A.E. continuing education units, please contact accreditation@aaae.org.


American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits
This webinar is pending approval by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.