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1 Background ACRP developed Project 02-28, "Airport Sustainability Practices: Tools for Evaluating, Measuring, and Implementing," in an effort to assist airports in making decisions regarding sustainability. The intended outcomes of ACRP Project 02-28 were a Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System (Prototype Rating System)
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2 Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System -- Characteristics, Viability, and Implementation Options 3. Adhere to the EONS (Economic Performance, Operational Efficiency, Natural Resource Conservation, and Social Responsibility)
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Summary 3 SAGA database, completed as part of ACRP Project 02-30, aligned the categories of sustainability practices with these sustainability activities to enhance the utility of the SAGA database when using the rating system. Appendix E of this report presents the definitions of each of the 50 sustainability activities that compose the Prototype Rating System.
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4 Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System -- Characteristics, Viability, and Implementation Options Figure S-2. Example User Guide excerpt.
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Summary 5 outline for the preliminary User Guide, includes the description of a User Guide section that will define all 50 sustainability activities, each of which will look similar to the five sample excerpts included in Appendix D The Prototype Rating System provides a proof of concept and is sufficiently complete to help the airport community determine whether to proceed with developing a full Draft Airport Sustainability Rating System (Draft Rating System)
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6 Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System -- Characteristics, Viability, and Implementation Options and overall rating system levels, airports can gauge their performance at whichever level of adoption makes them most comfortable, and then progress easily toward a fuller adoption over time. This flexibility allows selective prioritization of the activities and categories, as airports can choose which activities resonate most with their stakeholders and adopt activities on a case-by-case basis, or pursue a more comprehensive approach -- implementing a complete set of activities within a category or even the entire Prototype Rating System.
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Summary 7 verification program. In the interim, however, if the airport community determines that the goal of the rating system should be to serve as universal resource to as many airports as possible, then a self-certification rating system may be better suited to focus on the universal benefits to all airports through a functional and flexible self-rating system.
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8 Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System -- Characteristics, Viability, and Implementation Options framework and would assign draft points to each of the activities. At the conclusion of Phase III, the rating system could be piloted at a select set of airports.
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Summary 9 At the start of both ACRP Projects 02-28 and 02-30, it was recognized that the projects involved overlapping efforts to create a useful tool and website. In February 2012, both panels came to a consensus to join the projects to produce one tool for the industry.
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10 Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System -- Characteristics, Viability, and Implementation Options their airport and prioritize according to their most important criteria (e.g., capital cost, payback period, social benefits)
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Summary 11 sustainability practice can be applied at a certain airport are the level of passenger service and the geographic features. Airport characteristics include: a.
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12 Prototype Airport Sustainability Rating System -- Characteristics, Viability, and Implementation Options of users (i.e., novices to sustainability, staff from various departments, and leaders with diverse objectives) through a process to understand basic sustainability principles, learn how sustainability can enhance an organization, and determine how best to use the information in the SAGA website to set and meet sustainability goals.
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