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Mission Statement
Mission Statement
The AV070 Aircraft/Airport Compatibility Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) is concerned with issues related to aircraft and their compatibility with airport airside areas, which include the regions that aircraft interface with during ground movements: airport aprons, taxiways, runways, and their environs. In addition, the committee is concerned with the use of and evaluating data from geographic information systems to support airside operations.
Committee Leadership
Committee Leadership
Dr. Katie Chou, P.E., ENV SP, Chair of AV070 is a Pacific Region airport infrastructure lead at Stantec with diverse experience in airport engineering, pavement engineering, and infrastructure assessment. Her expertise includes airport planning, design and construction, airfield pavement design, project management, quality control, and utility design and coordination. She was responsible for the planning, design, and construction support services of airport pavement on multiple projects associated with the $5 billion LAX Modernization Program. She was a peer reviewer for both the Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) North Program at the LAX and the Runway & Taxiway Rehabilitation Project at the London Gatwick. She was the design manager for the Three Runway System Project at the Hong Kong International Airport, the civil project manager for the LAX Terminal 1.5 program, and the subconsultant project manager for the LAX Runway 25L rehabilitation project. She also has experience with Canadian airport projects.
Dr. Chou is active in industry organizations. She co-hosted a training workshop with FAA for the FAARFIELD airfield pavement design program. She was a conference chair to organize the 2015 ASCE/ Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) International Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference. She was the Airport Consultants Council (ACC) Engineering Committee Chair from 2014-2016 and a member of the ASCE T&DI Board of Governors from 2018-2020. Dr. Chou is an Engineering Track Host of the 2023 AAAE/ ACC Planning, Design and Construction Symposium and has given many presentations associated with the pavements and the LAX modernization program.
Dr. Chou earned her doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Navneet Garg, Secretary of AVO70 is a Program Manager in Airport Technology R&D Branch at the Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center (FAA WJHTC) in Atlantic City, N.J.
Dr. Garg has been actively involved in airport pavement research at FAA’s National Airport Pavement Test Facility since 1998, and manages projects on Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing, Sustainability and Resilience, Field Instrumentation and Testing, and Pavement Materials. He conceptualized and developed FAA’s National Airport Pavement & Materials Research Center (NAPMRC) – a $9 million state-of-the-art research facility. Dr. Garg is a Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), past Chair of ASCE Airfield Pavements Committee, on Board of Directors of International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), member of TRB committees, and Associate Editor of International Journal of Pavement Engineering (IJPE). He is the recipient of 2023 UIUC Civil & Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award, FAA’s 23rd Annual Ellis A. Ohnstad Award for Technical Excellence (2022), 2018 ASCE T&DI Airfield Practitioner Award, and 2004 Engineer of the Year Award given by the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies.
Dr. Garg earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997.
Dr. Priyanka Sarker, Committee Communications Coordinator (CCC) of AV070 is a Civil Engineer (transportation geotechnics) by training who is currently working as a subject matter expert in Airport Infrastructure (Pavements) at the Boeing Company.
At Boeing, Dr. Sarker is the first ever and the only Boeing Designated Expert (BDE) in Airport Pavement domain. As a BDE, She collaborates with the aviation community and the regulators (FAA, ICAO, etc) worldwide to provide technical support on anything related to airport pavement infrastructure & promote the continued development of the world’s airports so that they can support Boeing airplanes. Additionally, Dr. Sarker also leads all Boeing aircraft and airport compatibility efforts in South Asian aviation communities.
Dr. Sarker serves on numerous aviation related committees such as ICAO Airport Pavement Expert Group, Airport Concrete Pavement Technology (ACPT) Program coordination group, Airport Asphalt Pavement Technology Program (AAPT) coordination group etc. She completed her PhD in Civil Engineering with a focus in Transportation Geotechnics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Hao Wang, Co-Committee Research Coordinator (Co-CRC) is a Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an affiliated researcher in the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) at Rutgers University.
Dr. Wang has extensive experiences on highway and airport pavement engineering, multi-physics characterization and modeling of infrastructure materials, and life-cycle environmental assessment for sustainability and resilience. He has served as the PI or Co-PI of over 60 research projects sponsored by federal and state agencies including FAA, ACRP, and airport authorities. He is the recipient of prestigious Walter L. Huber Research Award from ASCE in 2022. He has served as the Chair of Mechanics of Pavement Committee of ASCE and is an active member of several TRB and ASCE committees on pavements.
Dr. Cláudia Azevedo, Co-Committee Research Coordinator (Co-CRC) is a Civil Engineer graduate of the Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, with a specialization in Urban Engineering, a master’s degree in civil engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco, in Transport and Infrastructure Management, and a doctorate in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Geotechnics/Pavement.
Dr. Azevedo has experience in Civil Engineering, with an emphasis on Transportation and Pavement, working mainly on the following subjects: transportation, airports, and asphalt pavement. She is currently a professor and doctoral researcher at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics. She coordinates a research project in partnership with the Civil Aviation Secretariat to evaluate airport pavements in the five regions of Brazil. She is an instructor at the Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents - CENIPA. She is a member of the National Association for Research and Teaching in Transportation and the Brazilian Pavement Association. She is the academic director of the Latin American and Caribbean Airport Pavement Association - ALACPA.
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