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PAST SESSIONS
2024 TRB Annual Meeting
Small Community Response to Air Service Development Trends: Ensuring Resilience with Innovative Aviation Solutions and Other Transportation Modes (Lectern Session)
Many small communities rely on federal subsidy programs such as Essential Air Service (EAS) and the Small Community Air Service Development Program (SCASDP) to encourage airlines to facilitate regional air service connectivity to/from larger markets. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and limited front-line staff available to service routes, airlines have cut several small markets from their network. Although this presents a challenge for small communities dependent on EAS and SCASDP, these situations may present an opportunity to explore more resilient multimodal options. By leveraging a combination of conventional (e.g., roadway, rail) and emerging transportation options (e.g., advanced air mobility [AAM], electric aircraft, and others), small communities could reconnect to larger markets with more robust, sustainable, and efficient transportation options.
This lectern session will start by examining the reasons for small communities losing air service and the outlook for air service to return. Then, it will introduce the potential opportunities for expanded multimodal transportation in small communities and determine the viability for implementing these strategies in several cases where air service is limited or completely gone. The session will include a panel discussion consisting of stakeholders engaged with air service development, emerging aviation technologies, and city and regional planning.
Making Space for All: Universal Design Practices for Airports (Workshop)
Many of the cities we live in, the airports we fly through, and the highways we drive on were historically designed without considering the range of perspectives necessary to be fully inclusive of all users. Legacy design practices are based overwhelmingly on similar data and assumptions. This workshop will use the principles behind feminist data theory and urban design to explore the experiences of women, trans folx, gender non-conforming, neurodiverse, or other marginalized groups as they interact with the airport system and will discuss and invite participants to apply lessons from feminist data theory and feminist urban design to explore the question: what could a more equitable airport design look like?
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2023 TRB Annual Meeting
Vertiports: Airport Planning and Operations Considerations
As Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) grows and mainstreams, take-off and landing facilities such as vertiports must also be deployed in addition to support its extensive network while utilizing existing aviation infrastructure such as airports. As the public and private sectors begin to plan for AAM, it is still being refined how vertiports will be integrated with the National Airspace System (NAS) with its traditional airport and heliport counterparts as well as other infrastructures such as surface transportation and modal connections.
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This session will discuss the role of the vertiport in airport planning and operations, and cover topics including:
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Defining what is a vertiport, how vertiports differ from heliports and airports, and the different types or classes of vertiports;
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Discussion of vertiport use cases where the departure and/or arrival vertiports are co-located with an airport (consider various airport sizes including controlled and uncontrolled airports);
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Defining the roles and responsibilities of vertiport users, vertiport operators, and community stakeholders (consider vertiport co-located at the airport and various ownership/usage models, such as private vs. public ownership and usage);
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Identifying potential impacts of AAM on intermodal passenger facility operation, access, and design;
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Identifying the planning needs (e.g. short- and long-term planning horizons, scheduling, coexistence with other aeronautical and non-aeronautical infrastructure, complexities in dense environments, etc.); and
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Identifying additional technology, regulatory, and research needs for vertiport operations.
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2022 TRB Annual Meeting
Airport Electrification and Automation for Emerging Aerial Mobility
Airports are at the threshold of several transitions and breakthroughs that will change the face of aviation, affect the way we travel by air, and impact communities and businesses. They include but are not limited to: advanced air mobility, electric and hydrogen aircraft, artificial intelligence & machine learning, automation, mobility-as-a-service, etc. This collaborative and interactive workshop will explore the implications of all these changes for aviation facilities and their stakeholders. During the workshop, participants will:​
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Understand the key airport/aircraft compatibility challenges when implementing advanced air mobility (AAM); and
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Understand the implications of emerging aerial mobility on diversity, equity, and inclusion, community planning, as well as airport resiliency.
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Identify policy and research needs for facilitating the accommodation of emerging aerial mobility;
Discussion topics will be curated into a list of proposed research ideas that will be developed into problem statements for the ACRP IdeaHub platform.
Equity Implications in Urban Air Mobility and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
This session explores the complex equity issues related to AAM and UAS, such as affordability; impacts of flights and vertiports on neighborhoods and vulnerable populations; and humanitarian use cases for AAM (e.g., emergency response, pandemic relief, and medical use cases). This session will also explore how the public and private sectors have confronted equity issues related to other innovative and emerging transportation technologies (e.g., shared mobility and automated vehicles) and discuss potential takeaways and lessons learned that may be applicable to the AAM context.
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2021 TRB Annual Meeting
The Power of Data: Using Data for Airport Design, Operations, and Traveler Quality of Life
This workshop will follow up discussions from a workshop held by AV040 & AV020 during the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting. While the initial workshop touched on the data needs and opportunities, this workshop focus on where to locate data, how to interact with it, and strategies to set up continuous data collection using new technology. It will also address how to connect various data sets to help plan more inclusive improvement/development projects so that airports can better serve an even broader/more diverse group of passengers, regardless of age, experience, capabilities, etc. Attendees will interact with experts and provided data sets to develop solutions to proposed problems to understand how to work with data.
Impacts of a Pandemic on Aviation Policy
The session will provide an overview of ongoing aviation administration and policy initiatives in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Front line perspectives from a variety of levels are represented including international and air cargo, airport sponsors and airlines, as well as State and Federal government. These shared perspectives and the ensuing dialogue will provide attendees administration and policy considerations to apply to their own front-line experience. The session will also provide a variety of issues to explore when considering lessons learned and current or future strategic planning activities. Perspectives will be shared regarding possible future implications for the industry.
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2020 TRB Annual Meeting
Reimagining the Future of Transportation with Personal Flight: Preparing and Planning for Urban Air Mobility
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This workshop features a moderated panel discussion of thought leaders, from the public and private sectors as well as academia, in the emerging space of urban air mobility (UAM). The program emphasizes technological developments, opportunities and challenges, technologies, equity issues, and potential societal barriers to implementing UAM. Participants will learn the following:
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What UAM is and how it will affect planning,
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The opportunities and challenges that arise when planning for UAM at the local and regional level, and
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Best practices and guiding principles to prepare for this new transportation mode.
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Roundtable discussions were held with diverse panel participation from State DOT's, FAA, and consultants.
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The Social Side of Sustainability: How Airports Promote Safe, Healthy, and Vibrant Communities
This panel features a moderated panel discussion of thought leaders (public, private, and academia) in the emerging space of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). The program emphasizes technological developments, opportunities and challenges, enabling technologies, equity, and potential societal barriers to implanting UAM.The session covers the following topics:
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Events in aviation history that affect sustainability and resiliency;
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Articles and publications (e.g., ACRP Reports, TRB Research, ACI Research, Academic Research, FAA Guidelines) that regulate and provide guidelines to airports for sustainable development;
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Sustainability certifications and case studies (e.g., LEED Buildings, Envision, WELL, RELi, FAA Sustainable Master Plans, facility management technology);
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Planning for future facilities: alternative fuels, electric and autonomous vehicles, repurposing parking garages;
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Energy and cybersecurity resiliency and sustainability.
The session is led by a moderator and panel of industry experts. Panelists include academic researchers, consultants, airport operators, and public officials.
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2019 TRB Annual Meeting
Universal Design at Airports: Today's Problems and Viable Solutions for Passengers with Disabilities
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Workshop session involving airport, Federal Aviation Administration, and consultant representatives speaking to the state of universal design in the aviation industry from their respective experiences; round table discussions during which attendees developed solutions for accessible design at airports to address a disability presented to the table
Future Skills Needed in Aviation
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Panel session with panelists from a wide range of backgrounds, career levels, and work areas (e.g., airlines, consultants, etc.). Panelists discussed topics including aviation education curricula, valuable skills for new
professionals, and the transmission of institutional knowledge between generations with audience questions throughout.
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2018 TRB Annual Meeting
Guiding Millennials: Recruitment, Mentoring, Guidance, and Succession
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Session including panelists from airport, airline, and academic perspectives along with a consultant focused on intergenerational conversations on how people are preparing our generation to be the leading generation of the future.
Big Projects, Big Partnerships
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Session on how to integrate airports with modes outside of the airport property. Discussion of LaGuardia terminal expansion, Atlanta aerotropolis, Space Coast projects, and agency coordination in the master planning process.
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2017 TRB Annual Meeting
View from the Aviation Trenches: Young Members in Professional Practice
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Workshop featuring representatives from government, airport, consulting, trade group, airline/pilot, academia, and aircraft sectors with discussion of the challenges facing young members starting a career in aviation.
More from the Aviation Trenches: Young Members in Professional Practice
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A follow-up session to the workshop featuring representatives from airport, consultant, government, and airline sectors featuring a brief overview by each representative was followed by a question and answer discussion.
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Current Young Professionals' Research in Aviation
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Poster session featuring aviation research conducted by students and young professionals.
2016 TRB Annual Meeting
The Human Side of Aviation: Exploring Next-Generation Workforce Challenges
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A session with a panel discussing challenges facing the aviation industry, including pilot shortages and training young professionals.
Multimodal Connections: Passenger Accessibility
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A session discussing how passengers access airports; a panel discussed rail access, changes in modal access, and transportation network companies.