The Future of Airports: A Vision of 2040 and 2070: Topic No. 10: Sustainability and Airport-Citizens

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 looks at sustainability including the negative externalities of aviation such as aircraft noise, aircraft emissions, and contribution to climate change. It also examines airports as economic contributors, employment centers, and mobility providers. Green airport initiatives are discussed including the Airport Carbon Accreditation program and the use of sustainable aviation fuels.

• Record URL:
  https://www.alumni.enac.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=651&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
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 15p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Airport noise; Airports; Climate change; Economic impacts; Employment; Environmental impacts; Forecasting; Mobility; Pollutants; Sustainable transportation; Trend (Statistics)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01744757
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 9 2020 11:59AM