On Feb. 14, the Transportation Research Board issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking a contractor for an 18- month $650,000 project on “Strategic Futuring of Airports and their Role in the U.S. Airport System. The closing date for the RFP on Project 01-52 is March 30. The project is expected to begin on June 1. “Airports began providing needed transportation of people and goods at a time when the U.S. highway system infrastructure was quite different, and air travel made the most sense for moving between cities. Today’s aviation system has evolved over multiple decades, resulting in a patchwork of regulations and associated expectations that haven’t always been stitched together cohesively. With the benefit of hindsight, it is time to look at the relationships of those expectations. Now airports are expected to be engines of economic development, facilitators of economic justice, and models of environmental stewardship all while meeting customer expectations and supporting the needs of the community within a framework developed 75 years ago,” the RFP explains.
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