moving walkway
Sign in to saveAlso known as moving sidewalk, autowalk, moving pavement, people-mover, travolator, travelator
roughly horizontal conveyor for pedestrians
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Encyclopedic overview
Moving walkway inside the Changi Airport station of the Singapore MRT
A moving walkway – also known as an autowalk, moving pavement, moving sidewalk, travolator, or travelator – is a slow-moving conveyor mechanism that transports people across a horizontal or inclined plane over a short to medium distance. They can be used by standing on them or walking on them, allowing users to cover that distance with less effort and/or more speed than by walking. They are commonly installed in pairs to provide transport in each direction. They are typically designed similarly to escalators and share much of the same underlying technology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “moving walkway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.