The New World Order
A population and GDP-driven model for forecasting aviation demand in 2050
KEYWORDS: Airports, Networks, Gravity Models
Welcome to the Meta Design Lab. This landing page contains resources supporting our research on the future of the world's aviation networks for the World Cities Summit 2022. We demonstrate how existing relationships between cities as aviation hubs, combined with population and GDP projections, can forecast future demand for travel destinations, airports, and thus, urban centres, through gravity models.
Explore the network
Discover the attractiveness of cities on a global scale as present and future aviation hubs through our interactive tool
Read the white paper
Learn about how we derived relationships between population, GDP and flight volumes to model future aviation demand
See the change in rankings
Who rises and falls by 2050 as key aviation players?