Incorporating Emerging Transportation and Ground Access Technologies at Airports
The Airport Cooperative Research Project (ACRP) Research Report 269: Enhancing Airport Access with Emerging Mobility provides strategies for addressing current and future transportation and ground access technologies and for planning landside facilities that incorporate these emerging technologies. Airport operators and other landside stakeholders will find these guidelines helpful when planning, designing, and operating passenger terminal facilities, including roadways, curbs, parking, mass transit facilities, and ground transportation centers. Accompanying this guide are appendices that provide case examples and other supportive research, as well as an electronic toolkit that features interactive content and tools to assess electric growth for landside transportation. Emerging ground access technologies, such as autonomous, automated, connected, and electric vehicles, will affect airport landside operations. Curbside traffic will change, becoming more complex as automotive technologies become more innovative. Other mass and personal transportation modes that leverage both legacy and new technologies will also provide mobility to and from the airport. Airport operators will need to understand the impacts to landside operations to effectively plan for passenger terminal facilities. They will also have to consider accessibility, costs, legal and regulatory implications, sustainability, and resilience. The research, conducted by WSP USA with support from Harris Miller Miller & Hanson and TransSolutions, focused on guidelines for near- and long-term integration of emerging and multimodal ground access technologies to enhance landside operations and the customer experience of passenger terminal facilities. The research included a literature review, an inventory of existing and emerging transportation modes relevant to airport ground access, and an impact assessment. An industry working group was also engaged to provide their feedback during the project. The guide and accompanying tools provide information on the current state and possible changes to airport access, emerging modes and technologies, strategies and planning for airport access, facility requirements planning, and other challenges that come with managing future landside operations changes. These materials can be found on the National Academies Press website (nap.nationalacademies.org) by searching for ACRP Research Report 269: Enhancing Airport Access with Emerging Mobility. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Enhancing Airport Access with Emerging Mobility. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/12323.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This research has been published as ACRP Research Report 269 Enhancing Airport Access with Emerging Mobility.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $500,000.00
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Contract Numbers:
Project 10-33
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Sponsor Organizations:
Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)
Transportation Research Board, 500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001Federal Aviation Administration
800 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC United States 20591 -
Project Managers:
Christensen, Jordan
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Performing Organizations:
One Penn Plaza
250 W 34th Street
New York, New York United States 10119 -
Principal Investigators:
Le Bris, Gaël
- Start Date: 20220426
- Expected Completion Date: 20230508
- Actual Completion Date: 20230508
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Airport access; Airport ground transportation; Airport planning; Airports; Autonomous vehicles; Electric vehicles; Landside operations (Airports)
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01779163
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
- Contract Numbers: Project 10-33
- Files: TRB, RIP
- Created Date: Aug 17 2021 10:24PM