“An airport is a time factory, where travellers meet at different speeds,” says Miklos Deri, creator of a breakthrough airport concept. “My understanding of an airport is rather similar to a huge switch. Boarding an airplane tomorrow should be as simple as boarding a train today.”

DRIVE THROUGH AIRPORT sends all arriving aircrafts through a path, separating the main handling phases into three stations: Arrival, Servicing, and Departure. Each station manages only one activity instead of being blocked for all three, thus reducing the amount of necessary gates by two-thirds.

Miklos Deri will be presenting the DRIVE THROUGH AIRPORT concept at the Future of AirRail – Innovations conference.

Miklos graduated in Architecture from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2005 he joined UNStudio, a renowned architecture firm, in 2011 he has co-founded MEHR. MEHR means MORE in German and is dedicated to claim back the vanishing role of architects as inventors.

The DRIVE THROUGH AIRPORT not only reduces the required space for a passenger terminal building by two-thirds, making the airport experience more user-friendly, but it also reduces the ecological footprint, compressing all distances between different transportation modes to an ultimate minimum. A drastic reduction in the size of airports would not only simplify ground handling, but would also greatly reduce its environmental impact.

Miklos Deri, DRIVE THROUGH AIRPORT, Session 4 – AirRail Projects

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