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... 2017 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRESS New Initiatives Take Off
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | III ACRP OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE* CHAIR Kitty Freidheim Freidheim Consulting VICE CHAIR Kelly Johnson Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority MEMBERS Gloria G
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... 4 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM Airports are vital national resources. They serve a key role in transportation of people and goods and in regional, national, and international commerce.
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... The National Academy of Sciences was established in 1863 by an Act of Congress, signed by President Lincoln, as a private, nongovernmental institution to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. Members are elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to research.
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... COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS STAFF Director Christopher J Hedges, Director Deputy Director Lori L
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... LETTER FROM THE AOC CHAIR Each year, our world grows even more interconnected as political, economic, environmental, and technological developments shape global affairs and vice versa, sometimes at the speed of lightning. For the airport industry, this new reality translates into a bright future.
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... ACRP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRESS CONTENTS Overview 1 ACRP Responds to Industry Needs 2 Noteworthy 2017 Publications 3 New Initiatives Take Off! 7 Meet ACRP 8 Disseminating ACRP Research Results and Engaging the Industry 10 Conclusion 16 Appendix A: Publications of the Airport Cooperative Research Program 17 Appendix B: Summary of Project Status Through December 31, 2017 29 Notice to Readers / How to Order ACRP Publications from TRB 73
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 1 OVERVIEW In 2017, the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) achieved continuing, significant successes in conducting high-quality, industrydriven research and getting it into the hands of airport practitioners who need solutions to their everyday challenges.
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... 2 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM ACRP RESPONDS TO INDUSTRY NEEDS Identifying areas of research that are meaningful to and needed by the airport industry is an ongoing priority for ACRP. In 2017, ACRP received 98 problem statements for research from a wide range of airport operators, airlines, federal and state transportation agencies, universities, aviation consultants, and other entities.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 3 NOTEWORTHY 2017 PUBLICATIONS In 2017, ACRP published 38 research reports, syntheses, research digests, and web resources covering a wide range of topics relevant to airports, including water regulations, emergency planning and communications, public address systems, and much more. Each report is published to meet ACRP's standards for high quality.
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... 4 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM • ACRP Research Report 168: Runway Protection Zones (RPZs) Risk Assessment Tool Users' Guide includes a tool to help airport operators evaluate the risk of an aircraft accident within the RPZ and, based on that output, assess the risk to people and property, considering population density and land use.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 5 LEGAL RESEARCH DIGESTS Legal Research Digest 31: Preemption of Worker-Retention and Labor-Peace Agreements at Airports provides an overview of labor-harmony or labor-peace agreements for airport management personnel and other interested personnel, including airport authority board members and elected officials. These agreements generally require that, as a condition of operating on airport property, an organization must become signatory to some form of an agreement with a labor organization.
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... 6 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM AIRPORTS AND ACRP -- BY THE NUMBERS The U.S. airport sector is large, complex, and dynamic.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 7 NEW INITIATIVES TAKE OFF! In 2017, ACRP launched several new initiatives to help better serve the airport industry.
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... 8 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM MEET ACRP ACRP's Manager and Senior Program Officers (SPOs) work closely with airport practitioners to develop and refine cooperative research that yields practical solutions to airport challenges.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 9 Marci Greenberger, A.A.E. Marci A
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... 10 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM AMBASSADOR AND CHAMPION PROGRAMS ACRP Ambassadors are experienced airport professionals who voluntarily attend conferences across the country on ACRP's behalf, personally connecting practitioners to ACRP research. Ambassadors attended more than 25 conferences in 2017 and have interacted with more than 30,000 professionals since the Ambassador program launched in 2012.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 11 CHAMPIONS AT WORK Sergey Kireyev, a senior planner in Orlando, Florida, became his organization's ACRP Champion soon after ACRP launched the initiative in 2015. ACRP caught up with Sergey to ask him a few questions about his experiences as an ACRP Champion.
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... 12 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM WEBINARS Organized by theme and topic, ACRP webinars allow principal investigators (PIs) and research teams to reach hundreds of airport practitioners in real time and talk about significant research findings and lessons learned after completing research reports.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 13 "During research for ACRP Project S04-19 [11-03/ Topic] in 2017, I interviewed a number of airports regarding how they incorporate persons with disabilities in their emergency exercises.
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... 14 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM IMPACTS ON PRACTICE (IOPs) Survey feedback informs ACRP about its research implemented at airports across the country.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 15 • IOP: Integrating Airport Research and Decision-making: A Case Study explores how ACRP research is integrated into decision-making processes at Jacksonville Aviation Authority and also examines emergency management, development of cooperative agreements, risk management, safety, communications, and operational efficiency. The IOP highlights the use of ACRP research to provide illustrative examples and tools to save money, operate more efficiently, and maintain a safer environment.  2016–2017 UNIVERSITY DESIGN COMPETITION FOR ADDRESSING AIRPORT NEEDS During the 2016–17 academic year, ACRP launched its annual University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs.
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... 16 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM CONCLUSION In the year to come, ACRP is poised to continue building on its research and stakeholder engagement successes. New initiatives that have taken root in 2017 will more formally launch and mature.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 17 1 APPENDIX A Publications of the Airport Cooperative Research Program Research Reports No.
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... 18 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 2 Research Reports No. Title, Pages, Publication YearProj.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 19 3 Research Reports No. Title, Pages, Publication YearProj.
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... 20 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 4 Research Reports No. Title, Pages, Publication YearProj.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 21 5 Research Reports No. Title, Pages, Publication YearProj.
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... 22 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 6 Research Results Digests No. Title, Pages, Publication YearProj.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 23 7 Legal Research Digests (Project 11-01)
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... 24 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 8 Syntheses (Project 11-03)
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 25 9 Syntheses (Project 11-03)
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... 26 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 10 Web-Only Documents No. Title, Pages, Publication YearProj.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 27 11 CDs No. Title, Publication YearProj.
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... 28 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 12 CDs No. Title, Publication YearProj.
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... 2017 Annual Report of Progress | 73 68 | AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM NOTICE TO READERS Information about project status is available on the ACRP website at www.TRB.org/ACRP. Detailed project write-ups will be available only on the ACRP website.
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