Landside Airside Why Airports Are the Way They Are
Why do we love and hate airports at the same time? Have you been a victim of tiresome walks, congestion, long lines, invasive pat-downs, eternal delays and so on? Perhaps no other technological system has been challenged by continuously changing paradigms
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LANDSIDE AIRSIDE
Why airports are the way they are
Landside | Airside
Victor Marquez
Landside | Airside Why Airports Are the Way They Are
Victor Marquez Mexico City, Mexico
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To my mother and In memory of Hans Meyer +
Preface: Current Definitions of the Landside and Airside
The Collins English Dictionary (“Landside, Airside,” 2003) defines the terms “landside” and “airside” succinctly: “Landside” (noun) is the part of an airport farthest from the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, and so forth; “Airside,” on the contrary, is the part of an airport nearest the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, and so on. Both definitions help to show that only an austere idea exists of what these terms mean, and that little research has been done to define them more accurately. In the general civil engineering and architecture lexicon, airside represents buildings and facilities on the side of the planes, and landside refers to the same but on the side of passengers, a definition similar to the one mentioned above. For the more specialized jargon of airport designers, engineers, and specialists, airports should be divided into two control sectors: the landside, referring to all areas allowing the free flow of passengers, visitors, and vehicles; the airside,
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