These documents provide guidance to airport sponsors to conduct project-level benefit-cost analysis (BCA) for capacity-related airport projects. The guidance also provides basic guidance for economic analysis of investments, including certain Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants, and regulations subject to FAA decision-making.

• Airport Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidance (PDF)
  • Calculating Delay Propagation Multipliers for Cost-Benefit Analysis, Mitre (February 2010) (PDF)
• Economic Analysis of Investment and Regulatory Decisions (PDF)
• Economic Values for Evaluation of FAA Investment and Regulatory Decisions
  • Table of contents (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Section 1: Treatment of time (PDF)
  • Section 2: Treatment of the values of life and injury in economic
    analysis (PDF)
  • Section 3: Aircraft capacity and utilization factors (PDF)
  • Section 4: Aircraft operating costs (PDF)
  • Section 5: Unit replacement and restoration costs of damaged
    aircraft (PDF)
  • Section 6: Economic values related to aircraft performance factors (PDF)
  • Section 7: Labor cost factors (PDF)
  • Section 8: Accident Investigation Costs (Reserved)
  • Section 9: Adjustment Methodology to Update Economic Values (Reserved)
  • Section 10: Other economic values (PDF)