Guide to Operational Resilience for Disruptive Events at Airports

Airports must deal with an array of challenges caused by infrequent but highly disruptive events, extreme weather, cyberattacks, cascading irregular operations, and other disruptions that can severely impair or halt critical functions and have an impact on facilities, passengers, employees, stakeholders, and the surrounding communities. Airports must be operationally resilient to withstand, adapt to, and continue providing service during any disruptive event. This requires many airport functional areas and stakeholders that may be affected (including operations, safety, emergency management, planning, and tenants) to have a role in the response. Research is needed to deliver clear, actionable guidance that enables airports of all sizes to build robust operational resilience plans for disruptive events. The objectives of this research are to (1) develop a guide to support airports of all sizes building robust operational resilience plans to respond to disruptive events of any type by leveraging existing resources, tools, data, and proven practices, (2) develop a checklist for building operational resilience, and (3) identify funding sources, eligibility criteria, and application guidance for developing operational resilience plans.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5958
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $450,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 10-39

• 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: 20260302
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport operations; Best practices; Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01963024
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 10-39
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 12 2025 10:33AM