Abstract:
A continuous passenger transportation installation comprising conveyor trains circulating continuously, but not at uniform speed, and loader trains bringing passengers from platforms to the conveyors or from the conveyor trains to platforms. Each conveyor is connected to a loader on at least one part of the journey between two stations to allow transfer of passengers between the two trains. This installation also comprises driving means on board, and controls to ensure connection and separation of the two trains.
Abstract:
An installation for transportation by trains made up of carriages able to move first within a network of their own, which may be a rail system, and then in an ordinary automotive vehicle network. Passengers pass from one network to another whilst remaining in the same carriage, thus abolishing loss of time due to halts for loading. Carriages circulate in the first network according to the principle of segmented trains, then as convoys, and lastly as individual vehicles.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an installation for continuous transport by trains made up of programmed (computer-controlled) vehicles, the installation comprising a main track serving stations via secondary tracks and having trains made up of at least one vehicle moving along the main track, the installation further being one wherein each vehicle is fitted with its own means for programming driving and braking, allowing the destination station to be selected and reached after extraction of the vehicles allocated for the station.