Welcome

The role of the airport has changed significantly around the world over the past decade. Aviation occupies a central role in regional, national and global economies. Airports are pivotal spaces enabling flows of both people and goods but have taken on new functions and features as nodes of high accessibility at various geographic scales. In turn, they confront a range of environmental, spatial, infrastructural, political, and design challenges on the ground.

This conference will gather inter-disciplinary researchers and practitioners to meet, discuss and debate the changing role and future of airports worldwide. The main interest is expected to be from disciplines such as infrastructure, airport and transport management, policy and governance, urban, architecture, geography, urban studies, transport planning, design and environmental studies.

The major foci will be on airports within the metropolitan context; the evolution of the airport city concept; their adaptation to airline strategies; design needs and opportunities airside and landside; broader commercial initiatives; and interactions with broader planning and environmental agendas.

The conference will be co-hosted by the Airport Metropolis and Airports of the Future Research Projects within the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering and the Faculty of Business at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.