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2 ACRP Project 11-01 panel members include attor- neys who work at airports or provide counsel to air- ports, those who represent a municipality that owns/ operates an airport, or those who are in private prac- tice. Panel membersâ areas of expertise include regu- latory and legislative analysis, litigation, and airport safety and security, and they represent both commer- cial service and general aviation airports. The panel meets approximately once a year to select topics that are (1) widespread enough to gener- ate broad interest, (2) timely and critical to the air- port community at large, (3) considered to have sufficient quantity and quality of information to pro- duce a digest, and (4) not being researched by other entities that would render the digest obsolete. Once the topic has been selected, the panel col- laborates to define the scope of work, which is then posted and distributed as a request for proposals (RFP). Any entity providing a detailed response to the RFP may submit its proposal. The panel then selects the proposer that it believes best fits the criteria set for achieving the research objective. In many cases, the selected contractor, the principal investigator, is an attorney, but depending on the subject area, the prin- cipal investigator may be a subject matter expert, with an attorney assisting the effort. Once the contractor has been selected, the panel then approves a submitted outline of the report and provides feedback. The principal investigator then conducts further research and submits a draft for panel review. The panel provides feedback and sug- gests changes andâbased on theseâthe author prepares a second draft, called the draft final deliv- erables (DFD). The panel provides comments on the DFD and completes a ballot as to its appropriateness for publication. On the basis of those comments, the principal investigator prepares and submits the final deliverables (FD). Once the FD is submitted to ACRP, it goes through a quality review to ensure that the panelâs comments have been adequately addressed and that sources are properly cited. After panel and ACRP review, the FD is submitted for publication. LEGAL RESEARCH STUDIES PANELISTS Individuals are appointed to ACRP project panels on the basis of professional experience, qualifications, and enthusiasm for the topic. For ongoing projects, such as ACRP Project 11-01, âLegal Aspects of Air- port Programs,â ACRP Project 11-03, âSynthesis Program,â and ACRP Project 11-04, âUniversity Stu- dent Programs,â the appointment process also takes into account the need for continuity, subject matter expertise, and responsiveness to process require- ments, as well as the interests of the individual panel members. From time to time, panel members are rotated to bring new perspectives to the project, improve project panel performance, or facilitate the work of the panel. Panel members generally serve on an ongoing project panel for approximately 3 to 4 years before rotating. The ACRP legal studies project has been fortu- nate to have many outstanding industry experts vol- unteer their time to oversee the research and thereby help build a library of resources for the industry that otherwise would not exist in any one place. Table 1 lists ACRP Project 11-01 panel members past and present. LEGAL RESEARCH TOPICS During the first 11 years of ACRP Project 11-01, there have been almost 50 topics selected for legal research in broad areas of interest to the airport legal community. Table 2 shows the topics that have been selected in the years 2006â2017. LEGAL RESEARCH DIGESTS Thirty-three ACRP Legal Research Digests have been published to date and are available at www.trb .org/acrp. The following sections summarize each digest. Legal Research Digest 1: Compilation of Airport Law Resources Daniel Reimer, Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell, LLP Sources for practitioners of airport law are widely dispersed. There are no case-comprehensive reporters, digests, treatises, or similar documents dedicated to airport law. Nor are there any compre- hensive databases or compilations available online. One consequence of this dispersion of knowledge is that a lawyer conducting research on airport law typically must consult multiple sources to gather information. This digest, which includes over 500 federal sources and indicates where those sources can be
AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration January 2018 Responsible Senior Program Officer: Marci A. Greenberger survey conducted by Airports Council InternationalâNorth America concluded that city ownership accounts for 38 percent, followed by regional airports at 25 per- cent, single county at 17 percent, and multi- jurisdictional at 9 percent. Primary legal services to these airports are, in most cases, provided by municipal, county, and state attorneys. Reports and summaries produced by the ACRP continuing legal studies projects and published as ACRP Legal Research Digests are developed to assist attorneys seeking to address the legal problems encountered during airport development and operations. Such substantive areas as eminent domain, environmental concerns, leasing, contracting, security, insurance, civil rights, and tort liability present cutting- edge legal issues for which research is needed. Airport legal research, when con- ducted through the TRBâs legal studies process, is focused on either collecting primary data that usually are not available elsewhere or analyzing existing literature. RESEARCH PROCESS A panel of eight airport industry attor- neys provides project oversight by selecting topics and providing technical guidance on each digest written by selected contractors. BACKGROUND Prior to the library of Legal Research Digests published by the Transportation Research Board, there was not a central- ized collection of information that could be consulted by attorneys involved in airport- related work. The Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) established a continuing project, ACRP Project 11-01, âLegal Aspects of Airport Programs,â to provide a means to assemble, study, and evaluate the myriad of legal problems en- countered by the nationâs airports. Modeled after the continuing legal studies projects in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the Tran- sit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), ACRP Project 11-01 provides similar legal research on topics of specific interest to the airport community. Reports and summa- ries produced under ACRP Project 11-01 are published in ACRPâs Legal Research Digest series and available on the website: http://www.TRB.org/ACRP. This Research Results Digest summarizes the products of the initial 11 years of ACRP Project 11-01. INTRODUCTION There are more than 4,000 airports in the country, and most of these air- ports are owned by governments. A 2003 LEGAL ASPECTS OF AIRPORT PROGRAMSâAN UPDATE This is a staff digest of the background and status of Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Project 11-01, âLegal Aspects of Airport Programs,â for which the Transportation Research Board is the agency coordinating the research. This digest updates Research Results Digest 16. Individual studies for the project are managed by Marci A. Greenberger, Senior Program Officer. Research Results Digest 27