With multibillion-dollar renovations to woo travelers, the era of national “terminal envy” is ending
to pilot tech innovations like food delivery robots, semiautonomous vehicles for shuttling employees and an installation that uses algae to reduce carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.
At Orlando International Airport’s new terminal, each gate has biometric screening devices. That means all international passengers can use facial recognition technology instead of showing boarding passes. Thibault said the airport has been working with the Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection with the goal of using the same technology for domestic flights.At TSA checkpoints, bins are automatically brought to the screening area and returned.
“All that has streamlined the processing so we are efficiently putting passengers through the security lanes,” Thibault said.One factor limiting airport modernizations across the country is space, especially at city airports like LaGuardia. To solve that problem, engineers for LaGuardia’s new Terminal B built vertically, with food and shops on the fourth level down to ground transportation on the first.
New building projects are turning to solutions like reflective glass for energy efficiency and different sources of fuel for air conditioning and heat, Burke said. On the airfield, more are using battery-powered vehicles than those powered by diesel. Dallas Fort Worth is already the “largest carbon-neutral airport in the world,” and is aiming to have net-zero emissions by 2030, Naja said. LAX is aiming for net-zero by 2045, according to Erbacci.
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