Over the past 20 years the number of passengers handled by British airports has trebled.
Passenger traffic at the airport in Long Beach, Calif., near Los Angeles, is expected to increase fivefold by 2008 over the 312,000 passengers handled in 2000, Mr. Boyd said.
The number of passengers handled by the city's two airports, Pudong and Hongqiao, has increased by more than 20% a year for five years, compared with single-digit growth at most of the world's big airports.
These periods possess the most flight movements, and more passengers handle procedures and wait for boarding in these periods, which result in smaller spatial distance among passengers.
HSR is currently becoming more and more popular, and this mode of public transportation is preferred in several countries due to its speed, safety, energy efficiency and larger passenger handling capacity [5, 6, 7, 8, 9].
Forbes.com talked with railroad expert Brooks Bentz, a partner and industry consultant with Accenture and a former railroad man with a great deal of experience in intermodal freight and passenger handling.
The airport was the 7th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic handling 70.4 million passengers in 2014.
Hong Kong International Airport is a leading air passenger gateway and logistics hub in Asia and one of the world's busiest airports in terms of international passenger and cargo movement, serving more than 47 million passengers and handling 3.74 million tonnes (4.12 million tons) of cargo in 2007.
Heathrow may have glittering shopping malls, but its passenger handling, security screening and toilets are more reminiscent of a third-world airport.
Among the landside services are those related to ground passenger handling; these include check-in, security, customs and immigration, baggage delivery, information, catering, cleaning and maintenance, shops and concessionary facilities, automobile rental, ground transportation, porters, special help for the elderly and handicapped, automobile parking, and public transportation (including taxis).
