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Future Airports


                he ongoing boom in travel   But it seems to be the way that                     irports, terminals and their
                demand within Asia Pacific,   technology is changing the world                  precincts will be bigger, more
                together with challenges posed   around us that is already changing          Amultifaceted and more complex.
                by climate change and growing   airports, and not just in the way              The airports of the future will
                global instability, as well as the   that people can now step inside the     be larger, with more runways, and
          Tpace of technological change in   terminal, scan their phone at a kiosk,          with better and more closely linked
          the lives we all lead, will shape airports   look into a passport check camera, and   terminal facilities, remedying the
          that might – apart from the obvious   board the aeroplane.                         legacy domestic/international split
          building-with-planes-nearby similarities   As just one example, growth in          that has not provided travellers in
          – be almost unrecognisable to today’s   on-demand app-based ride-hailing           Australia and New Zealand with
          traveller.                     like Uber has already had impacts                   optimal connections. And that future
            Some of the evolution towards   on the way airports design their                 isn’t that far away: master plans across
          these advanced facilities has already   forecourts, vehicle waiting areas,         the region seek to either link together
          started, with airports within future   and transit networks. Autonomous,     Airports of the future won’t just   physically separate terminals or to
          ocean flooding zones already building   driverless vehicles seem set to be the   be buildings with aeroplanes   replace them with combined facilities.
          runways and terminals at higher   next challenge to meet, especially   around them. Pictured is   Some of this replacement comes
          elevations. None wish to be the next   around passenger flows into and out of   an artist’s concept of the   from swing gates, where domestic
          Osaka Kansai, flooded and knocked   terminals.                  new Terminal B at New York   and international flights can both be
          out of action by a typhoon in early   But what will the airports of the   LaGuardia Airport. la guardia   operated, with passengers directed to
          September.                     future look like?                gateway partners   the appropriate arrivals stream when


































































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