TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 14: Graduate Research Award Program on Public Sector Aviation Issues summarizes the results of the initial four years of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues (ACRP Project 11 04). The program is designed to encourage applied research on airport related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders. Under the program, up to ten awards of 10,000 dollars each are made to full time graduate students for successful completion of a research paper on public sector airport related aviation issues during the academic year. Candidates must be full time students enrolled in a graduate degree program at an accredited institution of higher learning during the academic year. Successful papers are presented at the TRB Annual Meeting following completion of the program; exceptional papers have been published in subsequent volumes of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 25: Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues Update: 2008--2017 provides initial information for the 2016--2017 academic year of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues (ACRP Project 11-04). €The report also includes abstracts for student papers from the 2015--2016, 2014-2015, and 2013--2014 academic years, and lists papers from prior academic years beginning in 2008--2009. Abstracts for the earlier papers are available in ACRP RRD 14 and ACRP RRD 19. The program, sponsored by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and administered by the ACRP, is designed to encourage applied research on airport-related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders. Under the program, up to ten awards of $10,000 each are made to full-time graduate students for successful completion of a research paper on public-sector airport-related aviation issues during the academic year.€Candidates must be full-time students enrolled in a graduate degree program at a North American accredited institution of higher learning during the academic year. Successful papers are presented at the TRB Annual Meeting following completion of the program, and exceptional papers have been published in subsequent volumes of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board."--Publisher's description.

"The papers in this volume of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board were selected for awards in a nationwide competition under the 2011 to 2012 Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues. The program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and administered by the Transportation Research Board through the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The purpose of the Graduate Research Award Program is to encourage applied research on airport and related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders. The program aims to stimulate thought, discussion, and research by those who may become airport managers, operators, designers, and aviation policy makers. The focus is on applied research to help the public sector improve the quality, reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. civil aviation system. The 10 papers in this volume were peer-reviewed by members of the ACRP Selection Panel for the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, with additional expert advice as noted below. The panel evaluates applications from graduate students and recommends candidates for awards on the basis of academic accomplishments, references, experience, career goals, and proposed research (quality of concept, approach, and potential value to the public sector of aviation) and supervises research throughout the academic year."--Foreword (page vii).

"The papers in this volume of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board were selected for awards in a nationwide competition under the 2012 to 2013 Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues. The program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and administered by the Transportation Research Board through the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The purpose of the Graduate Research Award Program is to encourage applied research on airport and related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders. The program aims to stimulate thought, discussion, and research by those who may become airport managers, operators, designers, and aviation policy makers. The focus is on applied research to help the public sector improve the quality, reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. civil aviation system. The 10 papers in this volume were peer-reviewed by members of the ACRP Selection Panel for the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, with additional expert advice as noted below. The panel evaluates applications from graduate students and recommends candidates for awards on the basis of academic accomplishments, references, experience, career goals, and proposed research (quality of concept, approach, and potential value to the public sector of aviation) and supervises research throughout the academic year."--Foreword, p. vii.

TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2471 consists of 9 papers selected for awards in a nationwide competition under the 2014 to 2015 Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues. Topics explored by the papers include U.S. civil air show crashes, 1993 to 2013; identifying and analyzing atypical flights; spatiotemporal dynamics in identification of aircraft-bird strikes; airport infrastructure investment; quantifying the performance of warm-mix asphalt and reclaimed asphalt pavement in flexible airfield pavements; and airfield pavement response caused by heavy aircraft takeoff. This issue also explores the impact of heavy aircraft takeoffs on airfield pavement; an evaluation of pavement preservation and maintenance activities at general aviation airports in Texas; airport traffic and metropolitan economies; and an analysis of the timing of flight delay announcements by U.S. airlines. The Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues is managed by TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program and sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration. The program is designed to encourage applied research on airport and related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders. -- Publisher's website