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Guidebook for Developing Ramp Control Facilities (2017)

Chapter: Chapter 4 - Implementation

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Suggested Citation:"Chapter 4 - Implementation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Guidebook for Developing Ramp Control Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24668.
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Suggested Citation:"Chapter 4 - Implementation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Guidebook for Developing Ramp Control Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24668.
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26 Implementation After obtaining executive management understanding and approval of the recommended approach to implement ramp control, consider assigning the implementation of the solution to a specific project manager within the airport organization. Giving the responsibility and the authority to implement the decision to a single, focal point-of-contact will prove valuable because of the technical and organizational complexity of adapting this new capability at the airport. 4.1 Steps Going Forward Listed below are a number of steps that should be considered as airport operators develop a ramp control implementation plan: • Develop processes and procedures that optimize operations on the ramp. • Develop and publish an implementation plan and schedule. • Negotiate required contracts (e.g., airline lease amendments, stakeholder license amend- ments, collective bargaining agreements, as appropriate). • In considering establishing or modifying a ramp control operation, airports should remain aware of technology developments that may enable or enhance achievement of their goals. • Create or modify an existing SOP/letter of agreement (LOA) that denotes the area of jurisdic- tion including specification of the transfer points with ATC, and the roles and responsibilities of ATC and ramp control personnel. Although airports with ramp control have a number of common practices, they vary in how ramp control is staffed, their ramp terminology, required knowledge, how training is accomplished, etc. • Ensure flight operators are aware of ramp control processes and procedures (e.g., pilot bul- letins, letters to airmen). • Identify funding options, including the potential for grants. • Share lessons learned from the evaluation and decision process: – With airport management and stakeholders—This may include pilot bulletins, letters to airmen, aeronautical charts, pilot briefings, etc. Be sure to communicate with all stake- holders affected by the decision. C h a p t e r 4 Decision Support Tool Tip: Throughout the decision process, users can save updated information entered into the Decision Support Tool. This allows the user to change or add information as it is obtained.

Implementation 27 – With other airports—Sharing the positive as well as the negative lessons learned will help others avoid similar pitfalls. • Monitor how well ramp control addresses your concerns. Keep in mind that the process and Decision Support Tool can be used again in the future as airport conditions or stakeholders change. The research in this document can continue to ben- efit airport operators in making complex ramp decisions. In addition, because of the Decision Support Tool’s robust, flexible, and easy-to-use format that produces well thought out support for current or future ramp decisions, users can continue to input new scenarios.

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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 167: Guidebook for Developing Ramp Control Facilities provides guidance to airport operators considering providing ramp control services. An accompanying Ramp Control Decision Support Tool assists users through most considerations before providing ramp control services, including facility requirements, staffing, training, and technology and other factors, allowing the user to determine the best way to move forward.

The Ramp Control Decision Support Tool is implemented in a sequence of HTML files and Javascript libraries that can be navigated using a web browser. The current version of the tool supports Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers.

In order to use the install and start the tool please use the following steps:

1. Copy the provided zip file with the tool to a local directory.

2. Unzip the contents of the zip file to this directory.

3. Open index.html file using either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

4. The welcome page provides a general overview of the tool.

5. Click on the Get Started button to start uisng the tool. This will lead to Step 1 questions.

6. Provide responses to questions included in Step 1 and when done click on the Next button.

7. Repeat for Steps 2 and 3.

8. When done answering the questions for all three steps click on Report to automatically generate a report with all provided answers.

9. The report can be printed by clicking on Print button.

Disclaimer: This software is offered as is, without warranty or promise of support of any kind either expressed or implied. Under no circumstance will the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine or the Transportation Research Board (collectively "TRB") be liable for any loss or damage caused by the installation or operation of this product. TRB makes no representation or warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, including without limitation, the warranty of merchantability or the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not in any case be liable for any consequential or special damages.

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