ACRP IdeaHub Research Projects

Electric or Hydrogen aircraft could present long-term sustainable solutions for aviation, but will heavily depend on the ability of airports to coordinate and provide the infrastructure required for their operation. This research will look into such challenges and opportunities.

Create a data standard for aircraft ground operations and a tool to calculate detailed summaries of aircraft taxi times and flows from this aircraft vehicle location data

This project would deploy and evaluate airside automated mowing.

The emissions dispersion model used by airports for regulatory purposes does not account for aircraft-specific exhaust emissions transport and may be under- or over-estimating ground-level concentrations. Tracer studies for aircraft do not exist as they do for vehicles and are needed to evaluate newly developed dispersion models designed to better estimate the transport of aircraft exhaust emissions during low-altitude... more »

Recent Research and Synthesis studies have investigated airport implementation of air quality and greenhouse gas reduction projects (see 02-76 and S02-20, both in preparation). This research has identified a wide variety of projects and best practices for successful implementation. However, it has also identified gaps in data that require more in-depth study.