Airports
Airport Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP) Software
InfraMind helps airport sponsors and the consultants who prepare their ACIP build and submit a defensible 5-year program — forecasting airfield deterioration and prioritizing projects on top of MicroPAVER and the spreadsheets they replace, alongside the PCI data your pavement program produces.
Quick answer. Airport capital improvement plan (ACIP) software helps a sponsor — and the AEC consultant who prepares the plan — forecast airfield deterioration, prioritize runway, taxiway, and landside projects, and submit a defensible 5-year program tied to FAA AIP funding. InfraMind adds that forecasting and optimization layer on top of the airport pavement management system you already run.
Airport capital planning is the multi-year programming of airfield and landside investment that becomes a sponsor's ACIP
An Airport Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP) is the prioritized, typically five-year program of development and rehabilitation projects that the FAA uses to program Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants. Pavement is the centerpiece: under FAA Advisory Circular 150/5380-7B, AIP-funded pavement requires an airport pavement management program with periodic PCI surveys on roughly a three-year cycle (FAA AC 150/5380-7B).
Yet the airfield is one of the last corners of public infrastructure still planned by hand. Most airports hold pavement condition in MicroPAVER or FAA PAVEAIR, then rebuild the capital case — deterioration assumptions, treatment timing, funding scenarios — in spreadsheets every cycle. There is no AI-native owner of airfield capital planning. InfraMind is built for that gap, and for the reality that the plan is usually prepared by an AEC consultant on the sponsor's behalf.
The airfield pavement hierarchy InfraMind plans across.
What ACIP software does for sponsors and their consultants
InfraMind turns airfield condition into a defensible, FAA-facing program — and turns a per-airport spreadsheet rebuild into a repeatable model. These are the capabilities that matter on the airfield:
- Airfield deterioration forecasting. Forecast PCI decline on runways, taxiways, and aprons over the program horizon, so rehabilitation lands at the lowest-lifecycle-cost point instead of after the surface fails.
- ACIP project prioritization. Rank candidate projects across airfield pavement, lighting, NAVAIDs, and landside by condition, risk, and AIP eligibility into a defensible 5-year program.
- Scenario budgeting against AIP. Model entitlement and discretionary funding scenarios and see which projects make the cut at each level before the program is submitted.
- Beyond MicroPAVER + spreadsheets. Most airfields still run pavement management in MicroPAVER or PAVEAIR with the capital case rebuilt by hand in Excel. InfraMind adds the forecasting and optimization layer on top.
- Consultant-ready workspace. AEC consultants who prepare ACIPs for multiple sponsors get a repeatable, defensible model per airport instead of a bespoke spreadsheet rebuilt every cycle.
- Audit-ready justification. Every funded and deferred project carries a condition-and-risk rationale a sponsor can defend to its board and to the FAA ADO.
Built for both the sponsor and the consultant who prepares the ACIP
Airport capital planning is a two-party reality: the sponsor owns the program; an AEC firm usually builds it. InfraMind serves both sides of that relationship.
| Dimension | Airport sponsor | AEC / engineering consultant |
|---|---|---|
| Primary goal | A defensible 5-year ACIP that wins AIP funding | A repeatable, defensible plan delivered per airport client |
| Pain today | Capital case rebuilt by hand each cycle; hard to defend deferrals | Bespoke spreadsheet per airport; no reusable forecasting model |
| What InfraMind adds | Deterioration forecasting and scenario budgeting on top of PCI data | One model template, applied across the airport portfolio you serve |
| Output | Audit-ready ACIP with per-project justification | Client-ready deliverable with transparent prioritization logic |
How InfraMind fits the FAA pavement and ACIP workflow
InfraMind does not replace your pavement management system. Keep PAVEAIR or MicroPAVER for PCI inventory and survey data; InfraMind works alongside that condition data, forecasts how each pavement section will deteriorate, optimizes the treatment timing and project mix against AIP funding scenarios, and exports the prioritized multi-year ACIP with a defensible rationale per project.
How InfraMind fits the FAA pavement and ACIP workflow.
If you prepare ACIPs across a book of airport clients, see InfraMind for AEC & engineering consultants for the partner and channel model — specify and deliver InfraMind across every vertical you serve, not just aviation.
Pavement is the largest single driver of an ACIP. For the broader road and runway pavement story, see AI pavement management software, and for the procurement path read the RFP requirements for capital planning software.
Airport ACIP software FAQ
Build a defensible 5-year ACIP
See how InfraMind forecasts airfield deterioration and prioritizes a defensible ACIP — for sponsors and the consultants who prepare it.