Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices

Airport administrators, engineers, and researchers often face problems for which information already exists, either in documented form or as undocumented experience and practice. This information may be fragmented, scattered, and unevaluated. As a consequence, full knowledge of what has been learned about a problem may not be brought to bear on its solution. Costly research findings may go unused, valuable experience may be overlooked, and due consideration may not be given to recommended practices for solving or alleviating the problem. There is information on nearly every subject of concern to the airport industry. Much of it derives from research or from the work of practitioners faced with problems in their day-to-day work. To provide a systematic means for assembling and evaluating such useful information and to make it available to the entire airport community, an ACRP synthesis program has been established similar to those currently in existence in both the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). These programs search out and synthesize useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor will constitute an ACRP Synthesis of Airport Practice series. The objective of this project is to provide a synthesis program for the ACRP. A synthesis is a relatively short document (40-60 pages) that summarizes existing practice in a specific topic area based typically on a literature search and a survey of relevant organizations (e.g., airports). Synthesis reports are most valuable when they are focused on issues or problems common to many organizations. The primary users of the reports are the practitioners who work on those issues or problems using diverse approaches in their individual settings. Note that syntheses merely summarize existing practice. They do not undertake new research, nor do they contain policy recommendations.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=128

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 11-03

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591

  Airport Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001
• Project Managers:

  Schatz, Theresia

• Performing Organizations:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Principal Investigators:

  Staba, Gail

• Start Date: 20050131
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 12095

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access control (Transportation); Airports; Finance; Forecasting; Ground transportation; Research projects; Revenues; Safety and security; Traffic counting
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01552959
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Airport Cooperative Research Program
• Contract Numbers: Project 11-03
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 7 2015 1:00AM