The Future of Airports: A Vision of 2040 and 2070: Topic No. 1: The World in 2040 and 2070

The Future of Airports is a research initiatives coordinated by the Airport Think Tank of Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) Alumni with a global panel of about 20 thought aviation leaders from various backgrounds, experiences, and affiliations. This panel discussed various prospective topics to explore and forecast the long-term future of the airport industry. Each time, the panel members considered the future trends and potential disruptive changes, the emerging transformational innovations, their impact on practice and challenges for air transportation, and the needs in research, education and policies for anticipating and facilitating these changes. The global analysis of this research project was conducted between March 2019 and April 2020. This document focuses on projected trends for 2040 and 2070, including population projections, projected age distributions, and climate change, and their impact on air travel. The appendix includes a look at the effects of COVID-19 on the aviation industry.

• Record URL:
  https://www.alumni.enac.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=622&fg=1
• Corporate Authors:

  WSP

  Raleigh, NC  United States 

  Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile

  Alumni Group
  Toulouse,   France 
• Authors:
  • Le Bris, Gaël
  • Nguyen, Loup-Giang
  • Tagoe, Beathia
• Publication Date: 2020-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: White Paper Version 2
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References;
• Pagination: 17p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age groups; Air transportation; Airports; Climate change; COVID-19; Forecasting; Impacts; Population; Trend (Statistics)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01744748
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 9 2020 11:59AM