The Airport Energy Resilience Equation

Airports across the United States are facing rapidly evolving and increasingly complex energy demands while facing significant challenges in managing their existing energy systems. Additionally, most existing airport energy planning tools and methods lack granularity, forecasting capability, scenario modeling, and resilience-focused performance metrics needed to guide strategic decision-making. To address these challenges, airports need practical, data-informed tools capable of quantifying resilience across multiple energy systems, forecasting capacity needs under a variety of transition and disruption scenarios, and identifying energy-related pinch points that may affect operations, maintenance, and capital development. Building upon the foundational concepts outlined in ACRP Research Report 260: Airport Energy Resiliency Roadmap, this project aims to advance the industry from conceptual guidance to operational tools and measurable performance metrics. Research is needed to identify the critical variables and factors that influence airport energy resilience and to develop practical tools that provide structured, repeatable methodologies for assessing existing and future energy resilience and support data-driven decision-making. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to develop decision support tool(s) for U.S. airports of various sizes that can help quantify airport energy resilience spanning across airport asset categories (e.g., equipment, subsystems, buildings, campus) and functional areas (e.g., operations, maintenance, capital planning), focusing on existing and new actions of which the airport has direct influence or control, and a guide for applying the tool(s).

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5946
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $500,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 02-107

• 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: 20251001
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Decision support systems; Energy consumption; Risk management; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Energy; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01962999
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 02-107
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 12 2025 10:11AM