As artificial intelligence moves toward aircraft operation, there is going to be a need for special airfields to accommodate unmanned planes. Design / construction of these airfields could easily become an expanded field of Civil Engineering and other disciplines.
The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine have published a 129 page guide which can be read on-line, downloaded as a .pdf, or a ordered in print.
Becoming familiar with this topic may be of value when need for these airfields occurs.