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LINEARLY CONFIGURED TERMINAL BUILDINGS
Linear buildings are long structures with one side devoted to aircraft and the other faced by roads and parking lots. Designers originally called it the "gate arrival" concept. The idea was that people could arrive at the airport right at their departure gate and walk to their flight through a thin building. (Nuefville & Odoni, 2002)
Figure 3.11 Passenger Movement in the linear terminal building
In a linear arrangement of the building all the airport processes are linearly arranged and are uniformly distributed across the terminal. Upon entry, the passenger can straight up go through all the processes towards their gates. Hence after completing their departure processes the passengers straight away head to their respective gates and hover around in that area to access nearby concessions. So, throughout the time the waiting areas keep occupied and unlike the centralized building, they have constant influx and outflux of passengers. In this case, the passengers are not likely to be constantly seated and preferably would keep themselves occupied here and there from time to time.
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