TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features  research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 85: Alternative Fuels in Airport Fleets and Synthesis 89: Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers.

The research from these two companion syntheses may help airport operators make smart choices for alternative fuels and clean vehicle policies at airports. The presenters will address how to use alternative fuels in airport-owned or operated fleets, including maintenance and facilities vehicles, security vehicles, and shuttles. They will discuss battery electric vehicles, hydrogen, biofuels, compressed natural gas, renewable diesel, and renewable natural gas.

The presenters will also cover public-use airports implementing clean vehicle policies for private ground transportation (GT) operators, and discuss challenges and best practices. They will focus on several types of clean vehicle policies and how airports apply them to various private GT operators at the airport such as taxicabs, shared van rides, hotel/parking shuttles, scheduled airport service, transportation network companies (TNCs), and other providers.

This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar; however, sign into MyTRB.org to view registration information.

Webinar Presenters

• Geoffrey Morrison, The Cadmus Group, Inc.
• Cian Fields, The Cadmus Group, Inc.
• Alexander Kolpakov, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
• Austin Sipiora, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
• Tami McCrossen-Orr, Los Angeles World Airports

Moderated by:  Abubaker Azam, San Francisco International Airport

 Webinar Outline ​

1. ACRP Synthesis 85: Alternative Fuels in Airport Fleets
   • State of practice for alternative fuels in airport fleets
   • Environmental emissions tradeoffs between different types of alternative fuels
2. ACRP Synthesis 89: Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers
   • State of practice for developing airport clean vehicle policies for private GT operators
   • Approaches and strategies that different public-use airports use
   • Airport case study
3. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will able to:

• Describe the feasibility of using alternative fuels in airport fleet vehicles
• Understand how to analyze the environmental emissions tradeoffs between different types of alternative fuels
• Discuss how to develop clean vehicle policies for private GT operators at airports
• Describe the various approaches and strategies used to encourage GT providers to operate more environmentally friendly

Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives

The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) will provide 1 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) to accredited airport executives who attend this webinar. Claim CEUs by visiting www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about AAAE continuing education units, please contact accreditation@aaae.org.

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits

This webinar is approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits.  Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website, Certification Maintenance webpage at https://www.planning.org/cm to claim your credits. You may use the following steps:

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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.