TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, September 22, 2015, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET that featured research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) specific to General Aviation Airports. Special topics of concern included back-country airstrip preservation and evaluating methods for obtaining aircraft operations counts at non-towered airports.
Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is no fee associated with this webinar.
This webinar provided 1.5 Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives. This webinar has met approval by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits.
Here are the slides from the presentations.
Webinar Presenters
- John Anderson, T-O Engineers
- Maria Muia, Woolpert
- Mary Johnson, Purdue University
Moderator: Seth Young,
Ohio State University
Webinar Outline
- Introduction
- ACRP Synthesis 55: Backcountry Airstrip Preservation
- Uses, benefits, and threats to backcountry airstrips
- Practices and strategies to manage these threats
- ACRP Project 03-27: Evaluating Methods for Counting Aircraft Operations at Non-Towered Airports
- How to identify, test, and evaluate methods for obtaining aircraft operations counts at non-towered airports
- 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 be able to:
- Summarize the limitations of using aircraft traffic counting equipment to sample airport operations and how to manage threats to backcountry airstrips
- Apply the limitations of using aircraft traffic counting equipment to its practical use in the field
- Use statistical extrapolation to expand a sample count of aircraft operations into an annual estimate of operations
Registration Information
This webinar is sponsored by the
Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar.
Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives
The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) is making 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for A.A.E. If you are an A.A.E. and would like to apply for CEUs for this webinar, visit
www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about A.A.E. continuing education units, please contact
accreditation@aaae.org.
American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits
This webinar has met approval 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.
To report your CM credits, visit
www.planning.org/cm
1. Login using your ID# and password
2. Select My CM log
3. Select Add Credits
4. Under Browse you have the option of searching by Date, Provider, or Distance Education and using the search box to type in the name of the event or activity and clicking go
5. A pop-up box will appear. If this is a multi-part event you will have the option to select from a list of activities
6. Please rate, add a comment (optional), and click on the Ethics statement and answer
7. Click submit and the CM credits should appear in your CM log
If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact
AICPCM@planning.org.
Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at
RGillum@nas.edu.
