Guidelines for Planning for Future Growth of Electric Vehicles at Airports

Airports are increasingly interested in electrifying the airport-owned/operated fleets as well as encouraging the use of electric vehicles among passengers, employees, and ground transportation companies. Yet airport planners have few resources to help them effectively plan for this growth. For the airport-owned/operated fleet, staff need tools and frameworks to ensure they follow an efficient, cost-effective approach that leverages external funding and partnerships when electrifying their fleet. Airports also need guidelines on how to forecast electric vehicle activity and facility requirements for airport passengers, employees, and ground transportation companies to ensure facilities are correctly sized, located, and priced. Lastly, practitioners need to be able to consider overall airport electrical requirements that also includes the advent of electric aircraft. The objective of this research is to develop guidelines and tools to help airport industry practitioners plan for the growth in electric vehicle activity. The guidelines and tools should cover requirements for not only ground vehicles (i.e., airport-owned/operated fleets as well as vehicles operated by the public, employees, and ground transportation operators) but also electric-powered aircraft.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5399

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $600000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 03-71

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Airport Cooperative Research Program

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

  Federal Aviation Administration

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

  Griffin, Matthew

• Start Date: 20220815
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Airport ground transportation; Airport planning; Cost effectiveness; Electric power; Electric vehicles; Financing; Guidelines; Partnerships; Vehicle fleets
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Energy; Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01854685
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 03-71
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 15 2022 4:13PM