動く歩道・エスカレーターの非常停止方法に関する研究

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Moving walkways and escalators have become increasingly popular in department stores, supermarkets, railway stations, airports and other large buildings. However, in view of the tremendous increase in the number of elderly pedestrians, further improvement of the safety operation of moving walkways and escalators is now a major concern. Elderly pedestrians on moving walkways and escalators are most likely to be injured because most accidents involving the elderly result from loss of balance. Moving walkways and escalators must be designed to reduce the number of injuries incurred by the elderly as they contribute the largest percentage to total injuries. The approach was to examine the speed design of emergency stopping from the standpoint of its ability to mitigate falling hazards related to elderly people. In this study, differences in the brake function were experimentally investigated with an originally devised linear accelerator. Ten elderly and five younger people participated in a series of experiments. They were asked to stand upright on a movable cart of the linear accelerator. This was then operated at different decelerating modes. From the experimental results, we suggest a better decelerating mode and revision of JIS and CEN standards for emergency stopping of moving walkways and escalators.
社団法人日本建築学会の論文
1997-09-30