What does an interplanetary spaceport look like? Alas, searching for that doesn’t have very much useful in the way of the results. Okay, let’s try another take on the subject. Let’s look at the biggest international mass passenger transit systems operating in the world today: airports. Naturally, an interplanetary spaceport geared at carrying mainly human passengers would look quite similar to a scaled-up airport.
And the result? Well, the biggest airport in the world, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, looks quite uninteresting from the aerial view. Mainly, it’s open space and runways. It’s inside the smaller buildings where all the passenger logistical routing magic happens.
20190114/DuckDuckGo world’s largest airports
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartsfield%E2%80%93Jackson_Atlanta_International_Airport
Automated people mover? Interesting name assigned to small autonomous trains, typically deployed at airports and cities too small to justify the expense and scale of a human-operated train.
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plane_Train
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_mover
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_salute
So, being the Atlanta airport in Georgia is the world’s largest airport, what does Wikipedia have to say about the economy of Georgia? Indeed, one of the big ticket items in its economy is that big airport. Also, Georgia being a ocean-side state, has the Port of Savanah seaport, one of the largest container ports in the world, and excellent connections to rail and Interstate freeways.
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Savannah
20190114/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Savannah_harbor.jpeg
JJJ TODO: LINK with writings on spaceport.