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The Perfect Fit

Handi-Lift helps a luxury menswear retailer achieve stylish accessibility with a vertical platform lift. Creating a lift that was not only Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant, but also so stylish...

Jungle Tram in the Panama Canal

An inclined lift makes navigating the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s unique layout possible. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) on Barro Colorado Island in the middle of the Panama Canal...

Up and Over

Pedarco’s automated pedestrian overpass aims to provide a solution in a quickly urbanizing world. Pedarco International Ltd. hopes an idea born in Italy and developed in China will result in...

MRL Elevators on the Rise

Equipment continues to gain acceptance in the U.S., thanks to several advantages. While popular in Europe and Asia for several years, machine-room-less (MRL) elevators are still making their debut in...

Rising to the Challenge

ThyssenKrupp Elevator takes its Evolution lifts farther and higher to meet the needs of Luanda, Angola, tower. The special requirements of the 31-floor, 120-m- tall Banco Espírito Santo Angola (BESA)...

The Right Elevators at the Right Time

ThyssenKrupp Elevator’s synergy BLUE elevators debut in custom job for PIER 78. ThyssenKrupp Elevator unveiled a pair of its environmentally friendly, stylish machine-room-less (MRL) synergy BLUE elevators amid much fanfare...

Difficulties in Comparing the Results of Lift-Traffic-Simulations

Difficulties in Comparing the Results of Lift-Traffic-Simulations by Hans M. Jappsen and Olaf Rieke This paper was presented at  USA 2012, the ­International Congress on Vertical Transportation ­Technologies and first...

Deriving Elevator RTT under Incoming Traffic Conditions and a Single Entrance

by Lutfi Al-Sharif, Hasan Algzawi and Ahmad Hammoudeh RTT is the basis for designing elevator systems. There are several different methods (both analytical and numerical) for calculating it. As a...

Performance Analysis

Group Configurations Define Group Efficiency and Performance All groups with large cars are inefficient. During periods of heavy traffic, large cars make many time-consuming stops to distribute and/or collect high...

Daily Traffic Profiles

The traffic patterns of hotels and residential buildings is examined in this revisiting of Strakosch’s analysis. by Dr. Marja-Liisa Siikonen, Janne Sorsa, Juha-Matti Kuusinen and Henri Hakonen Traffic patterns for...