NextGen for Airports, Volume 5: Airport Planning and Development (2017)

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Appendix A: ACRP NextGen Initiative Projects | 97 A ACRP NextGen Initiative Projects Each year, the ACRP Oversight Committee (AOC) has a conversation about identifying an empha-sis area of unmet airport research needs. In 2013, at its January meeting, the AOC identified a need for research on the topic of NextGen at airports and provided funding to accomplish that objective. A workshop of invited industry practitioners was held by TRB in February 2013, and several problem statements were drafted. Over the next several months, these problem statements were refined, and the AOC allocated a total of more than $2 million for five of these problem statements at their July 2013 meeting. The five projects were: • ACRP Project 01-27, “NextGen—A Primer,” • ACRP Project 03-33, “NextGen—Airport Planning and Development,” • ACRP Project 01-28, “NextGen—Guidance for Engaging Airport Stakeholders,” • ACRP Project 03-34, “NextGen—Understanding the Airport’s Role in Performance-Based Naviga- tion (PBN),” and • ACRP Project 09-12, “NextGen—Leveraging NextGen Spatial Data to Benefit Airports.” ACRP Project 01-27, “NextGen—A Primer,” is seen as the flagship project in the initiative and is intended to provide the highest level overview of NextGen, focused specifically on providing three products: • An “Executive Primer” for airport directors, CEOs, and other senior executives. This is a high-level introduction to those issues that an airport’s senior management needs to be informed of. It will give an overview of what NextGen is, what it means for the CEO’s airport, the possible funding or development implications of NextGen and, most importantly, any risks to the airport that the NextGen programs may pose. Of particular interest in the executive primer, is the potential for public controversy related to NextGen activities. The Executive Primer will present information at a basic level of detail. • A Practitioners’ Resource Guide focused on providing somewhat more detailed information needed by airport staff who will have their job functions affected by NextGen. This guide provides infor- mation at an introductory level, giving a reasonable in-depth treatment, while not going into the much greater detail with which the other three projects treat their subjects. • A Public Information Toolkit designed to help airports communicate with community groups, local media, business leaders, elected officials, and others not generally familiar with aviation issues. The Public Information Toolkit will also provide information that can be used with local aviation inter- ests, pilots, and others with a direct stake in NextGen issues at their airport. The toolkit will stan- dardize, elevate, and simplify messages for generic industry-wide and public distribution. The goal is to raise general awareness of NextGen and the role airports have in its implementation. Messages will focus on community effects; show how airports fit into NextGen; what NextGen means to communities; and how the roles of airports, communities, and other stakeholders may change.

98 | AIRPORT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT This project, ACRP 03-33, “NextGen, “Airport Planning and Development” is intended to develop a guidebook to help airport industry practitioners understand and incorporate NextGen capabilities into planning for all categories of airports, including: • A description of how specific NextGen capabilities affect airport planning and development; • Methods to assess the improvements in safety, capacity, efficiency, and environmental performance related to NextGen capabilities and their economic impacts; • Case study examples of NextGen projects highlighting best practices and lessons learned for incor- porating NextGen into the airport planning process; and • A comprehensive list of published documents applicable to incorporating NextGen into airport planning. ACRP Project 01-28, “NextGen—Engaging Airport Stakeholders Guidebook” is intended to devel- op guidance for airports to engage with the FAA and other airport stakeholders on NextGen develop- ment and implementation life cycle to include, but not be limited to, planning, environmental, review, design, and deployment. This will be done at a more detailed level than the public information toolkit of the “NextGen—A Primer” project and will include: • Tools to create proactive communication (including key messaging), collaboration and cooperation plans and strategies specifically tailored for a variety of factors, including airport category, stake- holder role, and type of NextGen technology. This effort includes a description of different en- gagement methods (e.g., a guidebook, social media, website, workshops and forums, community roundtables, town hall meetings). • Methods that will enable airports to proactively engage with and to solicit and consider input from stakeholders about the environmental and economic benefits as well as costs of NextGen implementation. • A continuous engagement strategy that will consider the important balance between enhanced community engagement and efficient NextGen implementation including managing schedule and costs. • Example applications of tools, methods, and strategies for a prioritized list of NextGen initiatives and stakeholder scenarios. Case studies of a representative spectrum of airports that provide lessons learned and best prac- tices of stakeholder engagement. The case studies are based on scenarios that include consultation with the FAA, airport management, airline representatives, and, where appropriate, members of the community. ACRP Project 03-34, “NextGen—Understanding the Airport’s Role in Performance-Based Navigation (PBN)” is an in-depth study of the details of NextGen PBN as it relates to airports. PBN is a critical near-term component of the NextGen program. Design and implementation of PBN will have significance for airports of all sizes. Development of PBN procedures is currently underway, or will be underway shortly, in a number of communities. Involvement by airport operators is essential for successful implementation; and potential opportunities exist for realizing operational and envi- ronmental benefits as well as improvements to safety, reliability, and efficiencies of air services to the community. To maximize their productivity, airport operators need to have an understanding of the FAA design and implementation procedures, and have the means to identify and monitor metrics of expected benefits and impacts of these procedures so they can report back to their communities. To help imple- ment that program, the aviation community needs comprehensive and understandable information

Appendix A: ACRP NextGen Initiative Projects | 99 concerning PBN, presented in a usable and accessible format—describing implementation require- ments, related benefits, and potential costs. The objective of this research was to prepare a user-friendly “airport PBN resource guide” that presents essential, relevant material for use by airport operators, planners, managers, and others. The guide includes background information, an overview of federal policy (including recent legislation), accurate measures of the tradeoffs resulting from implementing PBN, and an identification of potential impli- cations to stakeholders. Trade-off measures encompass both quantitative and qualitative approaches to measure change in noise exposure, air quality, safety-related incidents, and other factors. In addi- tion, the resource guide describes practices and methods airport operators can use to work with their surrounding communities, the FAA, and other stakeholders in all phases of PBN development and implementation. The guide addresses the following primary issues: • Safety enhancements; • Improved efficiency of operations at the airport and in the surrounding airspace; and • Environmental outcomes, particularly relating to noise and emissions. ACRP Project 09-12, “NextGen—Leveraging NextGen Spatial Data to Benefit Airports.” The objective of this project in the NextGen initiative was to develop a guidebook for airport operators that identifies the benefits that can be derived from spatial data that is to be collected in support of the FAA’s NextGen effort, and provides guidance on how airports can maximize use of this data. The project includes: • An executive summary that demonstrates the benefits of the spatial data to be collected, and an overview of NextGen technologies for airport executive staff; • General information on return on investment including maintenance of data; • Benefits of data sharing with stakeholders including identification of the risks and challenges; • Identification of additional data that may be available and beneficial to airports; • Discussion of how data may be monetized to generate revenue for the airport, including: – Legal issues, if any; – Limitations to selling/sharing data; – Liabilities; – Uses of data that can be used to achieve operational objectives; – Uses of data that can be used for non-operational purposes (e.g., community engagement, marketing); • Benefits that the airport may achieve from the integration of spatial data with NextGen technologies; • Case study examples that illustrate best practices; • Identification of relevant technology trends that will impact airports in the future; • Expected timelines for airports to address spatial data requirements related to NextGen technologies; • List of additional resources; and, • Glossary of terms.

100 | AIRPORT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Collaboration Among ACRP NextGen Initiative Projects Taken together, the five NextGen Initiative projects are intended to provide comprehensive guid- ance on NextGen as it affects airports from the highest level concerns of the airport director or CEO to the detailed needs of working-level airport staff charged with implementation of NextGen-related programs. One vision of the information and results exchanged among the various projects is represented graphically in Figure A-1. This graphic is admittedly an ACRP 03-33–centric view of the ACRP NextGen Initiative. The information exchanged during the research occurred primarily at the February 2015 Workshop in Irvine, California, where all five NextGen Initiative project research teams were present. However, certain information was also exchanged following the workshop, particularly in the areas of survey results and available literature. Figure A-1. ACRP NextGen Initiative—information and results exchange.