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  2. Escalator - Wikipedia

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    Escalators typically rise at an angle of 30 or 35 degrees from the ground. [25] They move at 0.3–0.9 metres per second (1–3 ft/s), like moving walkways, and may traverse vertical distances in excess of 18 metres (60 ft). Most modern escalators have single-piece aluminum or stainless steel steps that move on a system of tracks in a ...

  3. Passengers per hour per direction - Wikipedia

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    Three parallel escalators; the direction of the middle escalator can be changed to double capacity in one direction (↑↑↓ or ↑↓↓). Many public transport systems handle a high directional flow of passengers— often traveling to work in a city in the morning rush hour and away from the said city in the late afternoon. To increase the ...

  4. Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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    The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee , a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...

  5. Talk:Wheaton station (Washington Metro) - Wikipedia

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    Just for consistency's sake, I think we should figure out the exact length/depth of the Wheaton Metro Station/Escalator. The Metro Fact .pdf link off the main Washington Metro page says the escalator is 230 feet long. Here on this page, it says the escalator is 508 feet long while the station is 230 feet deep.

  6. Moving walkway - Wikipedia

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    Moving walkway inside the Changi Airport station of the Singapore MRT. A moving walkway, also known as an autowalk, [1] moving pavement, [2] moving sidewalk, [3], travolator, [4] or travelator (British English), [5] is a slow-moving conveyor mechanism that transports people across a horizontal or inclined plane over a short to medium distance. [6]

  7. Characteristic length - Wikipedia

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    In physics, a characteristic length is an important dimension that defines the scale of a physical system. Often, such a length is used as an input to a formula in order to predict some characteristics of the system, and it is usually required by the construction of a dimensionless quantity, in the general framework of dimensional analysis and in particular applications such as fluid mechanics.

  8. Peachtree Center station - Wikipedia

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    Length of longest escalator serving the station entrance across from the Atlanta Public Library is 190 feet- the longest in the southeast. Cost of Station: approx. $45 million. Station depth: 120 feet. Station length: 900 feet. An exploratory tunnel was initially driven at the crown of the tunnel to provide input into rock quality.

  9. Building transportation systems - Wikipedia

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    Escalator; Moving walkway; Paternoster elevator; References Some other non-mechanical building transportation include: (this may vary depending ...