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Apr 26, 2012
Reasons Why People Movers Are Overly Expensive for Airport Applications
Publication: Designing, Constructing, Maintaining, and Financing Today's Airport Projects
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This paper presents reasons and constraints which have made Automated People Movers extremely expensive for airport applications and subsequently prevented smaller airports from considering technological solutions to their surface traffic problems. The paper also offers some recipes for better and more diversified use of People Mover technologies and project implementation techniques for both intra-airport and airport transit link applications.
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Designing, Constructing, Maintaining, and Financing Today's Airport Projects
Pages: 1 - 10
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© 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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Andrew S. Jakes
President, Jakes Associates, Inc., Jakes Plaza, 1940 The Alameda, Suite 200, San Jose, CA 95126
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