Why airports and areas surrounding airport are designed so complex?

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I have been to not many but few airports and each one seems to be upping ante with complexity. Its really hard to go around with cars or even juat navigating around airports. Why are they built like that? Is it just output of making it simple inside??

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An airport will have one, usually two freeways that connect to it – each with at least one on and offramp. There is usually also a surface road nearby for freight companies and other services associated with the airport.

Then, within the airport, there are separate areas for arrivals and departures, as well as short term parking, long term parking, and an area for rental cars. The terminal also needs a loop so that people don’t need to get onto the freeway if they were picking someone up who wasn’t at curbside yet.

All of these places need to connect to each other, and so there need to be lots of lanes and ramps for that, which makes airports complex.

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