Guidance on Concept Planning and Designing of Airport Collaboration Centers
Airports are increasingly interested in bringing multi-disciplines together in a common environment to improve collaborative decision making during regular and irregular operations. Guidance on how to plan and design for these centers is needed.
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Apps for Airports--Synthesis
Bring to ready attention both some common utilized apps for typical business purposes as well as specialize apps for other functional purposes.
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Earthquake Early Warning System
The USGS will be releasing the Earthquake Early Warning System for public use in 2018. All airports in the west will need to understand how this will directly impact shutdown of critical infrastructure, alerting to the public and changes in the airport safety systems.
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Busing Resources for Aircraft Emergencies and Transportation Outages
To determine best practices for providing backup transportation within an airport for the following situations:
- Aircraft emergencies, where passengers must deplane an aircraft and be bused to a terminal
- Planned and unplanned outages of alternative intra-airport transportation systems such as trains.
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Airside Planning, Design and operations: Electronic Resources Library In Reserve
• Create an electronic resources library – preferably a website. This searchable electronic library should provide an inventory of available publications including the abstracts and index of ACRP research documents and non-ACRP research documents related to airside planning, design and operations.
• Recommend a process for keeping the website up-to-date.
• Identify which... more »
Demonstrate Remote Autonomous Air Traffic Advisory System
Demonstrate an autonomous system that meets flight requirements for
small airports and commercial operators.
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Development of Airport Incident Command System (ICS) Training
Develop airport-specific Incident Command System training courses at the ICS-100 and ICS-200 levels that meets NIMS training standards as established by the National Incident Management System Training Program.
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Airport EOC Management Practices--Synthesis
Provide a synthesis to the airport emergency management community which identifies and assesses best practices across various airport emergency operations centers (EOCs).
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Training and Development of Airport Emergency Managers
Training and professional development of airport emergency managers is needed to orient new airport emergency managers to the special operational, regulatory, safety, administrative, and cultural aspects of functioning at an airport. This is becoming more urgent as more and more often airports are hiring emergency managers whose experience has been outside aviation.
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General Aviation Airports and Resilience: Complete Toolkits for Self-Directed Planning In Reserve
Resilience Partnerships with the Air National Guard
New U.S. Department of Defense programs offer funding for resilience upgrades in communities that neighbor military installations. This project would review resilience partnership strategies for the more than 70 civilian airports that are co-located with Air National Guard units.
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Airport Microgrid Solution Standard Framework
Development of a microgrid standard framework (Technical, Financial, Regulatory, Permitting) solution which can apply to all airports across the country. Due to the complexity of the airports' operation and numbers of stakeholders and decision-makers, this comprehensive solution has not been developed.