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A Load & Temperature Compensation Method for Green Hydraulic Lifts by Means of Inverters
This paper was presented at Elevcon USA 2012, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 19, edited by A. Lustig. It is...
The Street Called “Asansör” and Water-Powered Elevator Installation in Izmir
by Ersan Barlas, C. Erdem Imrak, Eren Kayaoglu, Adem Candas and Yusuf Z. Kocabal Abstract Asansör (which means elevator in Turkish) is a 1907 built building in Izmir’s Karatas quarter,...
Passenger Batch Arrivals at Elevator Lobbies
by Janne Sorsa, Juha-Matti Kuusinen and Marja-Liisa Siikonen - Passenger Batch Arrivals at Elevator Lobbies Abstract A typical assumption in elevator traffic analysis is that passengers arrive at the elevator...
The Impact of Traffic Variations on Elevator Performance
This paper was presented at USA 2012, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 19, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...
Traffic Analysis Based on the Up-Peak Round Trip Time Method: Why It Works and How It Can Be Improved
This paper was first presented at the 2nd Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies in September 2012 (www.liftsymposium.org). It is re-published from the Symposium proceedings with the permission of the...
Lift Performance Time
Performance time is a measure of how long it takes for a lift to travel between two floors, including opening and closing of the doors. Performance time has a major...
Escalator Overspeed and Anti-Reverse Protection Meter
A new utility model applicable to various escalators is examined. Ning Li, Yihui Ruan, Yuandong Jiang, Xueming Chen, Rongfeng Lu, Bin Huang, Zhe Cheng and Mingtao Chen A new testing...
The Effects of Ground Movement on Escalators
The role of escalators in major transportation networks such as the London Underground is discussed. London Underground (LU) transports approximately 3.5 million passengers per day. Certain stations within the network...
Methodologies for Designing and Developing New Concepts in Vertical Transportation
Escalator design, models and methodologies are a few of the key points in this article. by Juan David Cano-Moreno, José María Cabanellas Becerra, Jesús Félez Mindán and Carlos Labajo Tirado...
Maintaining Elevators and Escalators in the Transit Environment, Part 1
An overview of the equipment and standards of escalators and elevators in transit systems Mass transit found in many major metropolitan cities is an intermodal network connecting bus, rail, automobile...
