Now in each under construction trade, entertainment complex, the airport or in subways floor-by-floor escalators or passenger conveyors are installed. This hi-tech equipment effectively moves a large number of people from one level of the building on another.
According to current trends of construction of a product are carried out economic, safe and reliable. Except these characteristics, the design and finishing of the escalator or the passenger conveyor have to organically and fit into internal space of the building functionally.
On an installation site escalators can be two main classes — tunnel and floor-by-floor. Tunnel escalators are used in a long inclined tunnel — exits/entrances at metro stations of a deep bookmark. Floor-by-floor escalators are installed at metro stations of a small bookmark, and also in other spaces and in buildings.
Main advantages:
- Big capacity, is more than at elevators and cable cars.
- The stopped escalator is used as a ladder.
- These are transport cars of continuous action, passengers don't expect arrival of a transport cabin.
