Accelerating Moving Walkway: A review of the characteristics and potential application

Kusumaningtyas, Indraswari; Lodewijks, Gabriël

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.01.003

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“…Rockwood and Garmire (2015) study a possible integration of AMWs with urban infrastructure. Kusumaningtyas et al investigate the system from a transportation point of view (Kusumaningtyas and Lodewijks, 2008;Kusumaningtyas, 2009;Kusumaningtyas and Lodewijks, 2013). They suggest that AMWs are competitive against other modes of transport based on a comparative evaluation of their characteristics.…”

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“…To facilitate the comparison between AMWs and other modes of transport, we report the average speed, capacity, capital and operational cost, and corridor width for buses in mixed traffic, light rail services and AMWs in Table 1. We start from the main findings of the comparison made by Kusumaningtyas and Lodewijks (2008). Given that the literature on AMWs is present since 1977, we updated the costs according to the price inflation of cost index values such as capital and electricity costs, and commodities price indexes in Switzerland (FSO, 2016).…”

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“…Examples of accelerating walkways show that the system can reach 12-15 km/h (Kusumaningtyas, 2009), a speed competitive against urban bus and tram services, as well as private vehicles, which travel at an average speed of 15 km/h during peak hours (Christidis and Rivas, 2012). The use of AMWs is "competitive to that of the discontinuous transport systems [such busses and light rails] when the walking time, waiting time, and dwell time in stations are taken into account" (Kusumaningtyas and Lodewijks, 2008). Kusumaningtyas and Lodewijks (2008) conclude that AMWs can be competitive thanks to their capacity, speed, energy consumption, safety and possibility to be integrated into the urban environment.…”

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“…The use of AMWs is "competitive to that of the discontinuous transport systems [such busses and light rails] when the walking time, waiting time, and dwell time in stations are taken into account" (Kusumaningtyas and Lodewijks, 2008). Kusumaningtyas and Lodewijks (2008) conclude that AMWs can be competitive thanks to their capacity, speed, energy consumption, safety and possibility to be integrated into the urban environment.…”

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Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways

Scarinci¹,

Markov²,

Bierlaire³

2017

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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Pollution, congestion and urbanistic considerations are leading to a change in the use of private vehicles in dense city centers. More frequently, the last-mile is covered with systems such as public transport, car sharing and bike sharing as well as an increase in walking and cycling. Following this trend, we assume a hypothetical scenario where the use of private cars is strongly limited in dense urban areas, and innovative transport modes must be used. This work investigates a futuristic system based on a network of accelerating moving walkways (AMW) to facilitate the movement of pedestrians in city centers where cars have been banned. Unlike constant speed moving walkways, AMWs can reach speeds of up to 15km/h thanks to an acceleration section. This paper presents a rigorous description of the system characteristics from a transportation point of view, develops a heuristic algorithm for the network design problem, and tests it on a real case study. Given a network of urban roads and an origin-destination demand, the optimization algorithm, which combines traffic assignment and supply modification, explores the trade-off curve between the total travel time and capital cost of the infrastructure. The results give practical insight on the possible dimensioning of the system, show the optimal network designs, and how these vary with a reduction of the available budget. This paper investigates for the first time the use of AMWs at a network scale, and provides results useful for analyzing the system feasibility. The results on travel time, investment budget and payback period, indicates that AMWs could be an effective mode of transport in cities.

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Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways

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2017

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“…The speed of these walkways is controlled by the requirement for security upon passage and leave, which for the most part restricts it to around half ordinary strolling hustle, otherwise 30-40m/min. The moderate speediness of the pavement causes restlessness, with travelers frequently stroll on the catwalk itself or on the neighboring bottoms lightly utilize the slower walkway [2]. The view of accelerating walkway is shown in figure 1 below.…”

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Network Simulation of a Transportation System Based On Accelerating Moving Walkway for Efficient and Sustainable Cities

Kumar*,

Srinath,

Chakravarthy

et al. 2019

IJRTE

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Many transportation systems were developed across the world for rapid transportation of pedestrians in both congested and sustainable cities. This leads to the development of the individual place or area for sure. Perhaps a bit of traffic cannot be controlled at this moment even though many transportation systems were installed as discussed. Accelerating moving walkways are one of the premium techniques involved in the present scenario which has an immense stage of operation in this advanced world. Previous Articles discussed the difference between AMW to other transportation systems, now this paper involves the methodology of this system how the public can transform from one place to another place in an easy way. Here the system prepared in a batch mode transportation technique where limited pedestrians can only be transformed under some parameters like weight, persons and consumption of place. The plots of different speeds were developed using MATLAB and a sample model was drawn in CREO.

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Route planning for last-mile deliveries using mobile parcel lockers: A hybrid q-learning network approach

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Macias

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Re

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Accelerating Moving Walkway: A review of the characteristics and potential application

Cited by 12 publications

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Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways

Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways

Network Simulation of a Transportation System Based On Accelerating Moving Walkway for Efficient and Sustainable Cities

Route planning for last-mile deliveries using mobile parcel lockers: A hybrid q-learning network approach

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