Air Cargo System Planning Guide

The goal of airport system planning is to promote the efficient use of airport resources in a defined geographic area. This is accomplished through a thorough examination of the performance and interaction of the entire system to understand the interrelationships of the member airports. Developing airports in a system and understanding a region’s user requirements, socioeconomics, and surface transportation network may result in a more efficient system. While there has been a long-standing tradition of airport system planning focused on passenger and aircraft activity, airport air cargo system planning has been much less common. Air cargo facilities and activity are often off-site; there are also airport-to-airport cargo movements undertaken entirely by trucks (and it is common for airports to have more truck-to-truck cargo activity than aircraft air cargo activity). These unique characteristics of aircraft activity, coupled with limited reliable data on the types of air cargo movements and the cargo’s origins and destinations, make airport air cargo system planning challenging. Research is needed to help aviation planners develop air cargo system plans. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to develop a guide, with an executive summary, to help aviation planners conduct air cargo system planning at both the regional and state levels. 

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5794
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $425,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 03-80

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)

  Transportation Research Board, 500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  Murthy, Krishna

• Start Date: 20250113
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air cargo; Air cargo terminals; Airports; Strategic planning
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01926499
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 03-80
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 5 2024 8:20PM