ACRP Research Report 269: Enhancing Airport Access with Emerging Mobility

ACRP
November 2025

Emerging ground access technologies, such as autonomous, automated, connected, and electric vehicles, will affect airport landside operations. Curbside traffic will change, becoming more complex as automotive technologies become more innovative. Other mass and personal transportation modes that leverage both legacy and new technologies will also provide mobility to and from the airport. Airport operators will need to understand the impacts to landside operations to effectively plan for passenger terminal facilities. They will also have to consider accessibility, costs, legal and regulatory implications, sustainability, and resilience.

ACRP Research Report 269: Enhancing Airport Access with Emerging Mobility, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides strategies for addressing current and future transportation and ground access technologies and for planning landside facilities that incorporate these emerging technologies.

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