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Evaluating impacts of sustainability practices on airport operations and maintenance : user's guide and research report /

"The objective of this research is to develop a process to evaluate sustainability practices as they relate to the impacts on day-to-day airport operations and maintenance. The elements of the evaluation process should include, at a minimum, the short- and long-term implications of maintaining...

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Main Authors: Salerno, Jennifer (Author), Raiffa, Greg (Author), Lurie, Carol (Author)
Corporate Authors: Airport Cooperative Research Program (sponsoring body.), United States. Federal Aviation Administration (sponsoring body.)
Format: Software eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2014.
Series:ACRP report ; 110.
Subjects:
Airports > Management > Environmental aspects > Cost effectiveness.
Sustainability > Cost effectiveness.
Airports > Maintenance and repair > Cost effectiveness > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Airports > Environmental aspects > Cost effectiveness > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Airports > Environmental aspects.
Airports > Maintenance and repair.
Airport operations.
Evaluation and assessment.
Sustainable transportation.
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Summary:"The objective of this research is to develop a process to evaluate sustainability practices as they relate to the impacts on day-to-day airport operations and maintenance. The elements of the evaluation process should include, at a minimum, the short- and long-term implications of maintaining the sustainability practice, budgetary implications, staffing issues, appropriate metrics, environmental impacts, and a tool for conducting a cost-benefit analysis."--Project description.
Item Description:At head of title: Airport Cooperative Research Program.
Accompanying computer disc contains the Evaluation Process and Cost-Benefit Tool, which is a set of spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format, and a demonstration video for the Tool in MP4 format.
Physical Description:1 volume (various pagings) : Illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
Also available online.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 70).
ISBN:9780309284110 (softcover)
0309284112 (softcover)
ISSN:1935-9802 ;