During the program year 2017-2018, Stephanie Atallah won an Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, preparing research on “An Assessment of Contributing Factors to Air Service Loss in Small Communities.” In 2018, she won the Helen Overly Memorial Scholarship from the Women’s Transportation Seminar Central Virginia Chapters.
Stephanie Atallah
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
PhD Candidate
During the program year 2013-2014, Sophine Clachar won an Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, preparing research on “Identifying and Analyzing Atypical Flights Using Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches.”
Sophine Clachar, PhD
University of North Dakota
Data Scientist
During the program year 2012-2013, Derek Doran won an Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, preparing research on “An Analytic Model of Airport Security Checkpoint Screening Times.”
Derek Doran
Wright State University; Tenet3 LLC
Associate Professor; Director of Research and Development
During the program year 2017-2018, Angeli Gamez won an Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, preparing research on “Turning Maneuver Effect on Near-Surface Airfield Pavement Responses.”
Angeli Gamez
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD Candidate
During the program year 2013-2014, Jaime Hernandez won an Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, preparing research on “Airfield Pavement Response Due to Heavy Aircraft Takeoff: Advanced Modeling for Wheel Interaction Consideration.”
Jaime Hernandez
Marquette University
Assistant Professor
During the program year 2017-2018, Stephen Roswurm won an Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award on Public-Sector Aviation Issues, preparing research on “Developing Large Slab Airport Runways for the Next Century.”
Stephen Roswurm
The University of Oklahoma
Graduate Research Assistant
Under the ACRP Graduate Research Award Program, Yuan Wang developed a simulation platform to analyze the impacts of the fully automated vehicle to airport landside planning, operation, and design and discussed possible strategies that can help airports generate revenue in the era of emerging AVs in the program year 2017-2018.
Yuan Wang
University of South Florida
Graduate Research Assistant
Quinton White was the recipient of a 2017-2018 ACRP Graduate Research Award preparing research on “Taxation in the Aviation Industry: Insights and Challenges.”
Quinton White
University of North Carolina
PhD Candidate
In addition to the six biographies above, the full list of winners can be foundhere.
About the ACRP
The ACRP (Airport Cooperative Research Program) Graduate Research Award (GRA) is intended to stimulate thought, discussion, and research by those who may become the future airport managers, operators, designers, and policymakers in aviation. The focus of this graduate student research program is on applied research on airport and related aviation system issues to help the public sector continue to improve the quality, reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. civil aviation system well into the foreseeable future.
Airports are vital national resources. They serve key roles in the transportation of people and goods and in regional, national, and international commerce. They are where the nation’s aviation system connects with other modes of transportation and where federal responsibility for managing and regulating air traffic operations intersects with the role of state and local governments that own and operate most airports. Research is necessary to solve common operating problems, to adapt appropriate new technologies from other industries, and to introduce innovations into the airport industry.
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The ACRP carries out applied research on problems that are shared by airport operating agencies and are not being adequately addressed by existing federal research programs. The need for ACRP was identified in TRB Special Report 272: Airport Research Needs: Cooperative Solutions (March 2003), based on a study sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The ACRP undertakes research and other technical activities in a variety of airport subject areas, including design, construction, maintenance, operations, safety, security, policy, planning, human resources, and administration.
The Graduate Research Award offers a stipend as well as the opportunity for the student’s final research paper to be published in the Transportation Research Record and to present their work at the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting. In addition to the faculty research advisor at the students’ institutions, students benefit from expert advisors assigned by the ACRP to mentor the student during the research process. The ACRP GRA Program is sponsored by the FAA through the ACRP and managed by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium.
