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... 13 4 Research Topics Airports today face a plethora of O&M challenges. While many challenges are similar from airport to airport, many also reflect individual characteristics of each airport and their surrounding communities.
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... 14 Airports need to understand emerging and disruptive technologies and services that are impacting the industry and how to adapt. Airports have experienced this with the rise of Transportation Network Companies (TNC)
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... 15 • Guidebook to Assess Real-Time Operating Status of Non-Airport Controlled Assets (Sub-topic: Joint Operations) - Develop a guidebook describing how airports and their tenants can make use of their existing system software platforms and aftermarket, "off-the-shelf" technologies for sensing and reporting system status.
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... 16 functionality prior to engaging an IT technician. Alternatively, inter-departmental integration might consider the embedding of IT technicians into the maintenance departments in order to provide timely and holistic support.
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... 17 4.3 Safety and Security Moving people and goods safely is the primary objective of the airport industry and thus ensuring the safe operation of aircraft and vehicles at airports is paramount. At the same time, the rise in the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks at international and domestic airports is an urgent challenge for our industry, both on a local and global scale.
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... 18 capabilities, benefits, risks and potential problems can be explored. Use of case studies outside the aviation industry is encouraged.
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... 19 • Busing Resources for Aircraft Emergencies and Transportation Outages (Sub-topic: Emergency Response and Crisis Preparedness) – The purpose of this research is to determine the best practices for providing and contracting for backup transportation within an airport for the following situations: aircraft emergencies (where passengers must deplane an aircraft and be bused to the terminal)
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... 20 effectively integrate new software platforms into both legacy software systems and existing work flow processes of the airport department activities they are intended to support. • Evaluation of General Aviation Airport Financial Needs Considering Regional Risks and National Categorization (Sub-Topic: General Aviation)
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... 21 4.7 Unmanned Aerial Systems / Vehicles Unmanned aerial systems or vehicles (UAS / UAVs) , having been developed, deployed and matured over the years by the United States Armed Forces, are in high demand by both recreational users as well as commercial users.
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... 22 existing infrastructure. The guidebook could outline methods and means of comprehensively integrating the management of most all airport maintenance operations.

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