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This research seeks to capture the extent to which airports are facing the need for and engaging in organizational redesign across the industry and how airports can address the cultural challenges and impacts from redesign on their workforce. It will focus on identifying and providing airports with resources that are crucial to creating agile, innovative, and inclusive organizations for the future of air travel.

This research will study the concept of 'induced demand' for general aviation airports and provide a comprehensive guidance of this phenomenon, specifically for airports.

It is proposed to conduct legal research to:

• survey Federal, state, and foreign privacy laws applicable to the collection and use of biometric technology by the air industry;

• identify trends, analyses and categorization of pertinent laws and their requirements; and

• discuss practices best designed to foster compliance.

Create a synthesis of best practices that airports and industry professionals can consult for planning and designing airport tug/service road layout systems. Establishing industry guidelines will promote consistency and commonality while improving safety and efficiency during ramp operations.

ACRP 03-56 WebResource provides a variety of airside planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance resources. ACRP Project 03-56 created an electronic resource library known as the Airside WebResource, which provides a web-based library of various ACRP, FAA, and other author documents related to airside planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. The Airside WebResource is anticipated to... more »

About 15% of American adults suffer some level of fear (aviophobia). While some of them avoid flying almost totally, there are 15% that are passengers* passing through a US airport and experiencing aviophobia from boarding their upcoming flight. This fear, exacerbated to some extent by various factors within the airport's control, impacts passenger experience, their behavior before, during, and after boarding their plane.... more »

This Synthesis will document the various landside transportation data being gathered at airports, the data collection methods, the interpretation of data, and the application of data in decision-making.

Airports, especially general aviation, nonhub, and those with geographic terrain issues, have challenges with maintaining the turf and vegetation in and around the airport. The proposed Synthesis would review current airport practices for turf and vegetation management given the various constraints of manpower, equipment, funding, etc.

Effective management of a skilled workforce is essential to achieving an airport's strategic goals. This synthesis would provide airport managers with an overview of current human resources data analytics tools and techniques used for evidence-based decision making in workforce management.

This synthesis study will examine how US and International airports have responded to the capacity "crunch" caused by the current COVID crisis due to the need to provide for increased social distancing, infection testing, vaccination documentation verification, etc... Such an analysis will not only help disseminate ideas to assist airports in the short run as airports emerge from this crisis but will also provide guidance... more »

In 2020, ACRP Synthesis 108 was published based on 2018 data. This synthesis established an important (and previously unavailable) baseline about the fixed base operator (FBO) industry. Much has happened at GA airports and to business and personal flying during the pandemic.  It would be valuable to the GA airport community to reassess/update the analysis presented in Synthesis 108 and reflect on new services and business... more »

This Synthesis study will document the current state of practice of modeling the distribution of future aviation activity among airports in a multi-airport region and identify needed future research to advance the state of practice. The state of practice of how this is done has advanced very little in the past two decades, although the advent of relatively new "big data" sources of information offers promising opportunities... more »

To synthesize information on ground transportation fee structures and best practices at other airports, with an emphasis on carbon reduction. This information could be used to support innovative ground transportation fees to reduce carbon, while considering changes in travel patterns, non-aeronautical revenue, and potential social equity issues.

Cancelation of flights should be an independent airport decision rather than waiting for the government

Efforts to reduce airport impacts on climate change potentially could benefit from the expanding toolbox of micro mobility devices including powered and unpowered bicycles in lieu of fossil fossil powered vehicles for airside logistics.  How are airports using micro mobility devices?