{"id":736088,"date":"2012-11-22T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=b353ec422795df869da5ed9c7ace53e5"},"modified":"2012-11-22T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T22:00:01","slug":"acrp-research-results-digest-15-use-of-towbarless-tractors-at-airportsmdashbest-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/736088","title":{"rendered":"ACRP Research Results Digest 15: Use of Towbarless Tractors at Airports&amp;mdash;Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog.php?record_id=14649\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.nap.edu\/images\/tinycov\/0309277884.gif?w=780\" alt=\"Cover image\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\"><\/a>TRB\\'s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 15: Use of Towbarless Tractors at Airports&mdash;Best Practices includes broad guidance designed to help enhance the safe operation of towbarless tractors (TBLTs) at airports.<br \/> <br \/> The report is designed to assist airports and aircraft operators in gaining a basic understanding of the training and operational issues associated with TBLT operations.<br \/> <br \/> TBLTs, also known as towbarless tow vehicles (TLTVs), are used to tow aircraft on the airport. TBLTs, as the name implies, do not use a towbar but instead use a pick-up device located in the center of the vehicle to cradle the nose gear tires in order to provide direct maneuvering of the aircraft.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/nap\/new\/~4\/bUDouL3SuXw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRB\\&#8217;s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 15: Use of Towbarless Tractors at Airports&mdash;Best Practices includes broad guidance designed to help enhance the safe operation of towbarless tractors (TBLTs) at airports. The report is designed to assist airports and aircraft operators in gaining a basic understanding of the training and operational issues associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}