- Author
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Strakosch, G. R.
- Title
- Vertical Transportation Handbook.
- Book or Conf
- Vertical Transportation Handbook. Third (3rd) Edition,
John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY,
Strakosch, G. R., Editors,
570 p.,
1998
- Keywords
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transportation
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handbooks
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elevators (lifts)
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escalators
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moving walks
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commercial buildings
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residential buildings
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institutional buildings
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codes
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standards
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maintenance
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performance evaluation
- Identifiers
- essentials of elevatoring; sis of elevatoring in a building; passenger traffic requirements; incoming traffic; two-way traffic; utgoing traffic; elevator operation and control; space and physical requirements; service and freight elevators; nonconventional elevators, special applications and environmental considerations; automated material handling system; economics, maintenance and modernization; traffic studies and performance evaluation; changing modes of horizontal and vertical transportation