The Vertical Transportation Handbook, 4th Edition

List of Contributors.

1 The Essentials of Elevatoring.

2 The Basis of Elevatoring a Building.

3 Passenger Traffic Requirements.

4 Incoming Traffic.

5 Two-Way Traffic.

6 Outgoing Traffic.

7 Elevator Operation and Control.

8 Space and Physical Requirements.

9 Escalators and Moving Walks.

10 Elevatoring Commercial Buildings.

11 Elevatoring Residential Buildings.

12 Elevatoring Institutional Buildings.

13 Service and Freight Elevators.

14 Nonconventional Elevators, Special Applications, and Environmental Considerations.

15 Automated Material Handling Systems.

16 Codes and Standards.

17 Elevator Specifying and Contracting.

18 Economics, Maintenance, and Modernization.

19 Traffic Studies and Performance Evaluation.

20 The Changing Modes of Horizontal and Vertical

Transportation.

Appendix: Literature on Elevators and Escalators.

Index of Tables and Charts.

Index of Examples.

Subject Index.