ACRP Report 102: Guidance for Estimating Airport Construction Emissions
Abstract
As airports continue to expand and modify their infrastructure to meet the growing demand for air travel, they need to configure this growth within environmental constraints. Airport projects that rely on federal funding are required to conduct National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) studies to assess their environmental impact. ACRP Report 102: Guidance for Estimating Airport Construction Emissions provides guidance and an interactive electronic tool—the Airport Construction Emissions Inventory Tool (ACEIT)—to assist airports and other stakeholders to better understand and quantify airport construction emissions and also to bring consistency to airport construction emissions inventories. While this guidebook provides background information, it has been designed to facilitate emissions calculations using the ACEIT, which enables users to rely upon default information about the construction process for typical airport projects. The guidebook provides information to enhance user understanding of the construction process and information needed to improve the quality of emissions inventories developed by using default settings and data in the tool.