A Guide for Airport All-Hazard Recovery Planning

Airports face different types of incidents and disasters, each with their own level of severity, which may result in major operational disruption, contributing to financial setbacks and emotional distress among airport employees, tenants, and passengers. Resources such as FAA AC 150-5200-31C, Airport Emergency Plan and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Response Framework, Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101, and the National Incident Management System provide foundational guidance to prepare U.S. airports to respond to all types of incidents and disasters. However, many airports do not have detailed recovery plans as they are difficult to develop and airport-specific guidance on incident and disaster recovery is limited. Research is needed to support airports in understanding the recovery process following all-hazard incidents and disasters, whether they are small incidents that cause minimal disruptions or major disasters that cause significant disruptions and require intervention from external stakeholders. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to develop a guide for airports to plan and execute a recovery from all-hazard incidents and disasters. The guide should be scalable to all types of airports and speak to airport emergency planners and executives. The guide must include an executive summary and a template for an airport recovery plan. The template should be inclusive of everything from initial recovery to back to normal operations and include checklists for short-, medium-, and long-term actions.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5957
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $400,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 10-38

• 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:

  Griffin, Matthew

• Start Date: 20260515
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Disaster preparedness; Disaster resilience; Disasters and emergency operations; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01962993
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 10-38
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 12 2025 9:50AM