A new transportation system for efficient and sustainable cities: Development of a next generation variable speed moving walkway

作者：Rockwood David^*; Garmire David

来源：Sustainable Cities and Society, 2015, 14: 209-214.

DOI：10.1016/j.scs.2014.09.005

• Walkway
• Accelerating
• Mass transport

Urban areas require safe, fast, energy-efficient public transportation in order to provide sustainable living conditions. Unfortunately, many cities do not have the space or resources to provide robust public transport systems, such as subways. We investigate moving walkways as another mode of transportation. To date, moving walkways have served a minor role in transportation and are typically located only within airports. The key challenge that we overcome is how to design and integrate variable speed moving walkways so that they become a fast mode of transport that can integrate with urban infrastructure to provide an alternative or supplement to systems such as busses and subways. We address how to safely control and operate such walkways. In comparison with existing forms of public transportation, this mode of transportation allows lower latencies with higher throughput by operating continuously and allowing acceleration and deceleration of passengers.

• 出版日期2015-2