Singapore's LRT system is considered a people mover system.

A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a fully automated, grade-separated rail transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks, but is sometimes applied to considerably more complex automated systems. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 263 KB) This pictures shows a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Mover on the Punggol LRT at Punggol LRT station in Singapore. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 263 KB) This pictures shows a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Mover on the Punggol LRT at Punggol LRT station in Singapore. ... An example of a four-level stack interchange in the Netherlands. ... Urban rail transit is an all-encompassing term for various types of local rail systems serving urban or older suburban areas. ...

The term does not imply any particular technology, and a people mover may use technologies such as monorail, duorail, automated guideway transit or maglev. Propulsion may involve conventional on-board electric motors, linear motors or cable traction. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Rail tracks. ... A people mover is a fully-automated light rail or tram system. ... Shanghai Maglev Train stopping at terminus Longyang Road station Transrapid Shanghai Maglev Train Inside the Shanghai Transrapid maglev Inside the Shanghai Transrapid maglev VIP section Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (especially trains) via electromagnetic force. ... A linear motor is essentially an electric motor that has had its stator unrolled so that instead of producing a torque (rotation), it produces a linear force along its length. ... Cable Car in San Francisco A San Francisco cable car Winding drums on the London and Blackwall cable-operated railway, 1840. ...

Some complex APMs deploy fleets of small vehicles over a track network with off-line stations, and supply near non-stop service to passengers. These taxi-like systems are more usually referred to as personal rapid transit (PRT). Other complex APMs have similar characteristics to mass transit systems, and there is no clear cut distinction between a complex APM of this type and an automated mass transit system. Artists rendering of SkyTran, a proposed PRT design. ... In the United States of America, transit describes local area common carrier passenger transportation configured to provide scheduled service on fixed routes on a non-reservation basis. ...

History

One of the first people movers was the Never Stop Railway, constructed for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London in 1924. This railway consisted of 88 unmanned carriages circling the exhibition. The carriages ran on narrow gauge track, and were propelled by a gripping a revolving screw thread running between the tracks; by adjusting the pitch of this thread at different points in the track the carriages could be speeded up, or slowed down to a slow walking pace in stations to allow passengers to join and leave. The railway ran for the two years of the exhibition and was then dismantled.^[1] The British Empire Exhibition was held at Wembley, London in 1924. ... Wembley, until 1965 a borough in its own right, forms the northern part of the London Borough of Brent. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) with track spaced at less than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1. ...

Late 1949, Mike Kendall, Chief Engineer and Chairman of the Board of Stephens-Adamson Mfg. Co asked Al Neilson an engineer in the Industrial Products Division of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., If Goodyear had ever considered working on People Movers. He felt that with Goodyear’s ability to move materials in large quantities on conveyor belts they should consider moving batches of people.

Four years of engineering design, development, and testing, led to a joint patent being issued for three types of people movers which had been named Speedwalk, Speedramp, and Carveyor. Goodyear would sell the concept and Stephens-Adamson would manufacture and install the components.

A speedwalk consisted of a flat conveyor belt riding on a series of rollers, or a flat slippery surface, moving at 1.5 mph. (approximately half the speed of walking) the passengers would walk onto the belt and could stand or walk to the exit point. They were supported by a moving handrail.

Customers were expected to be Airline Terminals, Ballparks, Train Stations, etc. Today several manufacturers produce similar units under the generic name “Moving Sidewalks”

A Speedramp was very similar to a Speedwalk but it was used to change elevations, up or down a floor level . This could have been accomplished by an escalator ,but the Speedramp would allow wheeled luggage, small pull carts etc. to ride the belt at an operating cost predicted to be much lower than escalators or elevators.

The first successful installation of a Speedramp, spring of 1954, was in the Hudson and Manhattan RR Station in Jersey City to connect the Erie RR to the Hudson & Manhattan Tubes, This unit was 227 feet long, rose up 22 feet on a 15 degree grade and only cost $75,000.

A Carveyor consisted of many small cubicles or cars carrying ten people riding on a flat conveyor belt from Point A to Point B. The belt would be riding on a series of Motorized Rollers. The purpose of the motorized rollers was to facilitate the gradual acceleration and deceleration speeds on the conveyor belt and over come the tendency of all belts to stretch at start up and during shutdown. At point “A” passengers would enter a Speedwalk running parallel to the belts and cars of the Carveyor. The cars would be moving at the same speed as the Speedwalk; the passengers would enter the cars and be seated, while the motorized rollers would increase the speed of the cars up to the traveling speed (which would be preset depending on the distance to be covered).

At point B Passengers could disembark and by means of a series of flat slower belts (Speedwalks) go to other Carveyors to other destinations or out to the street. The cars at point B would continue on rollers around a semicircle and then reverse the process carrying passengers back to point A. The target installation was to be the 42nd street shuttle in NYC between Times Square and Grand Central station.

Colonel Sydney H. Bingham, Chairman of the Board of Transportation, New York City had several meetings with a group of architects who were trying to revamp the whole subway system in the heart of town to connect Penn. Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Grand Central and several new office complexes together. Several of these architects were involved in other programs and in later years many variations of the Carveyor people movers developed.

In November 1954 the New York Transit Authority issued an order to Goodyear and Stephens-Adamson to build a Complete Carveyor System between Times Square and Grand Central. A brief Summary and confirmation can be found in Time Magazine Monday Nov. 15, 1954. under the heading “Subway of the Future”. The cost was to be under $4 million .

Unfortunately the order was never fulfilled due to some very unpleasant politics and many other nasty little happenings that had nothing to do with the capabilities of the system.

Chocolate World In Hershey Pa., Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida are among many other locations that have used variations of the Carveyor concept. The one in Hershey Pa. was very similar.

The generic term 'people mover' was used by Walt Disney, when he and his Imagineers were working on the new 1967 Tomorrowland at Disneyland. The name was used as a working title for a new attraction, the PeopleMover. According to Imagineer Bob Gurr, "the name got stuck," and it was no longer a working title. For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... Walt Disney Imagineering was formed by entertainment mogul Walt Disney on December 16, 1952 as WED Enterprises (WED: Walter Elias Disney) to develop plans for a theme park and to manage Disneys personal assets. ... Tomorrowland is one of the many themed lands at the many Disneyland parks run by The Walt Disney Company around the world. ... This article is about a theme park in Anaheim, California USA. For other Disney parks and attractions, see Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. ... The PeopleMover (July 2, 1967–August 21, 1995)(officially the PeopleMover Thru the World of Tron, from 1982-1995) was an attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and remains open at the Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida as Tomorrowland Transit Authority. ... Robert Henry Gurr (born 1931) is an American amusement ride designer and Imagineer. ...

The world's first airport people mover was installed in 1971 at Tampa International Airport in the United States. APMs have now become common at large airports and progressive hospitals in the United States. FAA diagram of Tampa International Airport (TPA) Tampa International Airport (IATA: TPA, ICAO: KTPA) is a public airport located in Tampa, Florida in the United States, serving the Tampa Bay Area. ...

Driverless metros have become common in Europe and parts of Asia. The economics of automated trains tend to reduce the scale so tied to "mass" transit, so that small-scale installations are feasible. Thus cities normally thought of as too small to build a metro (e.g. Rennes, Lausanne, Brescia, etc.) are now doing so. Some medieval houses, such as these at Champ-Jacquet, can still be found in the center of Rennes. ... Lausanne (pronounced ) is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman), and facing Évian-les-Bains (France) and with the Jura mountains to its north. ... For the Italian administrative area, see Province of Brescia. ...

On September 30, 2006, the Peachliner in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan became that nation's first people mover to cease operations. September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Peachliner train. ... Komaki (小牧市; Komaki-shi) is a city located in Aichi, Japan. ... For the company, see Aichi Steel Corporation. ...

Examples

Rokko Liner, Kobe, Japan

New-Tram, Osaka, Japan

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Urban transit

• Canada
  • Toronto, Ontario: Scarborough RT (semi-automated)
  • Vancouver, British Columbia: SkyTrain
• England
  • Docklands Light Railway
• France
  • Poma 2000, Laon
• Germany
  • Dortmund's H-Bahn
• Netherlands
  • Capelle aan den IJssel Rivium
• Japan
  • Hiroshima: Astram Line
  • Kobe: Port Liner, Rokkō Liner
  • Komaki: Peach Liner (already discontinued)
  • Nagoya: Linimo, Nagoya Guideway Bus
  • Osaka: New Tram (Osaka Municipal Nankō Port Town Line)
  • Saitama: New Shuttle
  • Sakura: Yamaman Yūkarigaoka Line
  • Tokorozawa: Seibu Railway Yamaguchi Line (Leo Liner), which is a people mover Between Seibuen Park and Invoice Seibu Dome.
  • Tokyo: Yurikamome, Nippori-Toneri Liner (opens 2007)
  • Yokohama: Seaside Line
• Malaysia
  • Putra Light Rail Transit
• The Philippines
  • Manila Light Rail Transit System
  • Manila Metro Rail Transit System
• Portugal
  • Oeiras: SATU - Sistema Automático de Transporte Urbano
• Singapore
  • Bukit Panjang Light Rapid Transit
  • Sengkang Light Rapid Transit
  • Punggol Light Rapid Transit
• Taiwan
  • Muzha Line (TRTS)
• USA
  • Detroit, Michigan: Detroit People Mover -- elevated loop system (Downtown People Mover)
  • Indianapolis, Indiana -- Hospital and Public use
  • Jacksonville, Florida -- in the form of a monorail (the Jacksonville Skyway) (Downtown People Mover)
  • Miami, Florida: Metromover (Downtown People Mover)
  • Las Colinas, Dallas, Texas -- Las Colinas APT System

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Airport

Main article: List of airport people mover systems

Air-Rail Link at Birmingham International Airport, UK

An underground people mover station at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

LINK Interterminal Shuttle at Toronto Pearson International Airport

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Other

Underground mover in London Stansted Airport

• The former PeopleMover attraction at Disneyland, which ran from 1967 to 1995. (This is the source of the name "people mover." It was not meant to be used on a permanent basis, but WED Enterprises could not come up with any other names for it.)
• The Tomorrowland Transit Authority attraction, which was formerly called the WEDway PeopleMover, at Walt Disney World
• West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) -- a Group Rapid Transit system, similar to Personal rapid transit
• Huntsville, Alabama has a tram system [1] that connects different buildings of the Huntsville Hospital System.
• Amsterdam Schiphol Airport's ParkShuttle connected long-term Parking P3 and the airport terminal is an APM using electronic guidance, ensuring it does not require specific infrastructure (it runs on regular roads). Last in operation in 2004, its manufacturer is in bankruptcy.
• Slope car, a small automated monorail found in various parts of Japan, can be considered as a simple form of people mover.
• Tandy Center Subway is a people moved in Fort Worth, Texas that linked a shopping centre to it's parking lot, service was discontinued in 2002.

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See also

• Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit
• Intermodal passenger transport
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
• Parry People Movers (PPM)
• People carrier
• Personal rapid transit
• Slidewalk
• Véhicule Automatique Léger

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References

1. ^ Exhibiting the Empire. The Tribune, Chandigarh. Retrieved on November 6, 2006.

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External links

• Detroit's people mover
• Jon Bell's (Mostly) Rail Transit Pages
• Information on electronically guided people mover systems