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Method of automatically operating a semi-continuous passenger transport system using passive vehicles, and means for implementing same

  • US 4,413,568 A
  • Filed: 11/26/1981
  • Issued: 11/08/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automatic method of operating a semi-continuous passenger transport system having successive movable tracks for driving non-motorized vehicles along a closed path between at least two stations, said tracks including cruising speed tracks located between said stations, slow speed tracks at embarkation and disembarkation platforms located at each of said stations, and transition tracks for accelerating and decelerating said vehicles at the ends of said platforms;

  • said transport system further including structural means for limiting access of passengers to one of said vehicles located at one of said stations, said method comprising the steps of;

    (1) detecting the presence of an object by actuation of said structural means, the presence of said object being defined as a fault condition;

    (2) signaling said fault condition;

    (3) stopping the track on which said one vehicle in said station is situated and stopping all other tracks in said station without stopping said cruising speed tracks; and

    (4) cancelling steps (2) and (3) after said fault condition has been removed to progressively return said system to normal operation.

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