SkiftDesign: Drive-through airports takes ideas from car-wash line

Amsterdam based design studio Büro für MEHR has created a drive through concept for an airport passenger terminal that could change the way airports process traffic. The concept offers a significant reduction of the size of an airport’s layout to simplify ground traffic and significantly reduce its environmental impact.

The new concept sends aircrafts through a mandatory pathway, much a like a carwash but separated into three divisions: arrival, servicing and departure. The eight-lane Drive Through Airport prototype has the capability to process a maximum of 48 airplanes every 15 minutes.