The Future of Air Transport: ICE to see you?

'Eco Angst 2040'; 'Big Stick 2040'; 'Vortex of Despair 2040' and 'Laissez-Faire'

These are four provocative scenarios showing how UK air transport and airport infrastructure could look in 2040. They are set out in a new report produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers - ICE.

"ICE believe now is the ideal time to instigate a serious debate about the future development of UK airport infrastructure. The current economic crisis and the forthcoming General Election have focused thinking on the future structure of the UK economy and the transport system that is required to underpin it."

[The four scenarios are the result of two workshops facilitated by ARUP, with participants from major civil engineering companies and key aviation stakeholders.

ICE will be publishing its strategic policy document on airport infrastructure in early 2010.

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) was founded in 1818 to ensure professionalism in civil engineering. It represents 80,000 qualified and student civil engineers in the UK and across the globe. The ICE has long worked with the government of the day to help it to achieve its objectives, and has worked with industry to ensure that construction and civil engineering remain major contributors to the UK economy and UK exports.]