Editing Gatwick Airport (section)

===Terminal transfer===
[[File:Gatwick Airport terminal shuttle.jpg|thumb|The Gatwick Airport terminal shuttle departing from the South Terminal]]
{{main|Gatwick Airport Shuttle Transit}}

The airport's North and South Terminals are connected by a {{convert|0.75|mi|km}}, elevated, two-way [[automated people mover]] track. The transit shuttle normally consists of two automatic, three-car, driverless trains. Although colloquially known as a "[[monorail]]", the shuttle instead runs on a dual, concrete track with rubber tyres.<ref name="hudson">{{cite book| last=Hudson| first=Kenneth| title=Industrial history from the air| publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]| date=22 November 1984| pages=111–115| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DY9AAAAIAAJ&dq=gatwick&pg=PA135| chapter=Airports and Airfields| isbn=978-0-521-25333-8| access-date=16 November 2021| archive-date=10 November 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110005340/https://books.google.com/books?id=3DY9AAAAIAAJ&dq=gatwick&pg=PA135#v=onepage&q=gatwick&f=false| url-status=live}}</ref> The transit is [[land side]], and besides linking the two terminals also links the North terminal to the airport railway station.

The shuttle opened in 1987, along with the North Terminal, and initially used [[Adtranz C-100]] people-mover cars which remained in operation until September 2009, by which time they had travelled a total of 2.5 million miles (4 million km). Gatwick began upgrading its shuttle service in April 2008, with a bus replacement service in place from September 2009. A new operating system and shuttle cars (six [[Bombardier CX-100]] vehicles)<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13542338.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102174410/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13542338.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 November 2012 |title=Bombardier Signs 32&nbsp;Million Euro Contract for Automated People Mover System at London Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom; New APM Will Replace Existing Inter-Terminal Transit System Previously Supplied by Bombardier |publisher=Bombardier |date=19 December 2007 |access-date=15 August 2010}}</ref> were installed, and the guideway and transit stations were refurbished at a total cost of £45 million. The system re-opened on 1 July 2010, two months ahead of schedule;<ref>{{cite news| title=Gatwick transit closed| publisher=UK Airport News| date=29 September 2009| url=http://www.uk-airport-news.info/gatwick-airport-news-290909a.html| access-date=30 September 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015071228/http://www.uk-airport-news.info/gatwick-airport-news-290909a.html| archive-date=15 October 2009| df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.gatwickairport.com/business/media-centre/press-releases/gatwick-shuttle/ |title=London Gatwick – we have lift on! |publisher=Gatwick Airport |access-date=15 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803224818/http://www.gatwickairport.com/business/media-centre/press-releases/gatwick-shuttle/ |archive-date=3 August 2010 }}</ref> it featured live journey information and sensory technology to count the number of passengers at stations.

An earlier transit system, that opened in 1983 to link the main terminal (now the South Terminal) to the (then new) circular satellite pier, was the UK's first automated people-moving system. This system has since been replaced by a walkway-and-[[moving walkway]] link, although the remains of the elevated guideway are still visible.<ref name="hudson"/>