A Guidebook For Airport Airline Consortiums

"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 111: A Guidebook for Airport-Airline Consortiums provides decision-making guidance for airport operators and airline representatives who are responsible for agreements related to facilities, equipment, systems, and services and who may be interested in evaluating, advocating, or forming consortiums to provide needed services."--Publisher description.

Introduction -- Consortiums studied -- Scope of responsibilities -- Governance -- Membership -- Contracting methods -- Operations and administrative management -- Performance standards -- Capitalization -- Operating budgets -- cost allocation -- Pros and cons -- Lessons learned -- Conclusions.

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 33: Guidebook for Developing and Managing Airport Contracts is a guidebook of best practices for developing, soliciting, and managing airport agreements and contracts for use by a variety of airports. The agreements referenced in this guidebook range from airline-related agreements to communication and utility service as well as common-use, ground transportation, and concessions agreements for a variety of passenger services. An accompanying CD-ROM provides sample agreements in each of these areas. The CD-ROM included as part of ACRP Report 33 is also available for download from TRB's website as an ISO image. Links to the ISO image and instructions for burning a CD-ROM from an ISO image are provided.

"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 92: Guidebook to Creating a Collaborative Environment Between Airport Operations and Maintenance provides tools and strategies that are designed to help potentially increase and improve collaboration between operations and maintenance staffs at airports."--Publisher's description.

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 196: Guidebook for Integrating Collaborative Partnering into Traditional Airport Practices provides guidance for using collaborative partnering for airport construction projects. Collaborative partnering is a structured process to bring owners, designers, and construction teams face-to-face throughout the life of the project, and often is facilitated by a neutral third party. This report explores how airport staff involved with the design, construction, operation, and maintenance phases of constructing new airport assets may use collaborative partnering to potentially enhance tasks during the process.

"Describes best practices and specific design considerations and presents decision-making frameworks for implementing passenger conveyance systems. Passenger conveyance components include escalators, elevators, moving walkways, and passenger assist vehicles/carts. Automated People Mover systems (the subject of ACRP Reports 37 and 37A), personal rapid transit systems, and shuttle bus systems are not covered in the Guidebook. In addition to the Guidebook, ACRP Report 67 also includes a comprehensive database along with a Decision-Support Tool for planning, designing, and evaluating passenger conveyance systems at airports as a function of specific airport design and operating parameters. This database allows project planners to examine how passenger conveyance components operate as a system throughout different areas within the airport environment."--Foreword.

"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 137: Guidebook for Advancing Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) at Airports provides a background and historical context for the use of CDM in the United States and Europe. The guidebook provides tools that can be used to help airports of all sizes integrate CDM into airport operations and more effectively work with stakeholders. Airport collaborative decision making is a process that enables airports, airlines, other stakeholders, and the air navigation service provider to share data that may help these entities make operational decisions. CDM activities may assist airports with achieving efficiencies in daily operations and improve effectiveness of irregular operations activities." --