Brussels Airport Company

Speaker Biograghy: Tom is an airport masterplanner, chartered architect and professional member of RICS. Over the past five years he has been responsible for pioneering the Brussels Airport Masterplanning Vision 2040. This ambitious vision positions intermodality and smart city thinking at the heart of future aviation, infrastructure, commercial development and real-estate expansion at Brussels Airport.


Day 2 - 21 March
Session:
Airport Cities, Transport Connections & Regions


11:25 - 11:55 - Smart airport meets smart city – future airport design
Synopsis: The presentation will reference many smart airport and smart city initiatives and trends to explore how airports will be required to adapt to expected future shifts in passenger, terminal, commercial and intermodality demands. We will explore how these future expectations will markedly shift airport development by making direct reference to our own airport in Brussels. In particular, we shall explore how IATA Fast Travel, smart city design concepts, airport planning and design guidance tools and seamless travel recommendations will operationally, spatially and technologically reshape our airport and the airport city of the future.

Audience will learn: