Abstract
In recent years. Enlargement of stations, airports, and commercial facilities has increased the traveling distance of people. With this trend, more and more expectations are put on the moving walks as a means of horizontal transportation Conventional moving walks run at a constant speed of 30 or 40m/min, so there is a strong demand for shortening of traveling time. Under such background, we have developed an accelerating moving walk SPEEDMOVE with a tread running about twice the speed of the enter and exit sections in the middle section and as slow as the speed of conventional constant speed moving walks at the enter and exit sections. In this system, a thin flat belt (groove-less) is adopted, and passengers are carried on multiple different-speed tread belts arranged in a straight line. The tread belt speed in the middle section reaches 72m/min.
