A COMPARISON OF AUTOMATED PEOPLE MOVER AND ACCELERATING MOVING WALKWAY COSTS AND EFFECTIVENESS

This paper compares passenger travel time performance, capacity, initial costs, operating costs, and maintenance requirements for accelerating moving walkways and automated people mover systems. The review is based on a case study involving the satellite transit system at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and an accelerating moving walkway network which might have been substituted for the satellite transit system. The results of the case study indicate substantial advantages for the accelerating moving walkway alternative insofar as initial cost and travel time performance are concerned. Capacities of the two systems are comparable. Total operating and maintenance costs for the accelerating moving walkway system are concluded to be possibly substantially less than and, at most, comparable to the operating and maintenance costs for the people mover system. (author)

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• Authors:
  • BERGMANN, D R
  • Conner, L R
  • Schmelz, R E
  • Singh, H
• Publication Date: 1978-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 105-124
• Serial:
  • Transportation Planning and Technology
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0308-1060
  • Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gtpt20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Automatic control; Automation; Benefit cost analysis; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Economic efficiency; Economics; Escalators; Maintenance; Maintenance management; Moving sidewalks; Nails; Operating costs; Passenger transportation; People movers; Public transit; Travel time; Trip length; Vehicle capacity
• Identifier Terms: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs
• Geographic Terms: Seattle (Washington); United States
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 224: Cost; 237: Economic efficiency; 697: Journey time; 3847: Maintenance; 221: Operating costs; 744: Public transport; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00174065
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 1978 12:00AM