1256 results about "Passenger transport" patented technology

A passenger cabin of a passenger transport vehicle such as an aircraft includes single passenger seats arranged between an aisle and an outside cabin wall. Each seat is tiltably adjustable between an upright seating configuration and a reclined lying configuration, and is rotatable between a forward-facing orientation facing 0 to 18° relative to the cabin longitudinal axis, and an inwardly-turned orientation facing 50 to 600 relative to the longitudinal axis. The forward-facing orientation is for upright seating during take-off and landing. The inwardly-turned orientation provides additional leg room and sufficient space for the reclined lying configuration. The pitch spacing between seats can be minimized, and total seating capacity is high, while providing substantial space and comfort for each passenger. Screening partitions adjacent to the cabin wall and the aisle provide privacy screening and define a personal space allocated to each seat.

A system and method for integrating air and ground transportation of passengers and cargo. The system comprises a plurality of universal passenger containers. The system further comprises a plurality of universal cargo containers. An airplane is provided with a hollow fuselage adapted to be loaded with a plurality of passenger and / or cargo containers. A flatbed trailer can be provided to carry a passenger or a cargo container. A tractor vehicle can be provided to transport flatbed trailers between airplanes, locations within the airport, and points of origin and destination outside the airport complex. A system can be provided to load and unload passenger and cargo containers into and out of airplanes at the airport. A system is provided comprised of an airport complex including take-off and landing runways, taxiways, airplane staging areas, apparatus for detection of weapons in passenger and cargo containers, and air terminals with arrival and departure gates and baggage handling conveyors. A system is also provided comprised of remote air terminals at strategic locations a distance from the airport complex.

Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for safely transporting passengers from pickup locations to destination locations on-demand using automated / pilotless vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. In one implementation, an on-demand passenger transport system includes one or more VTOL aircraft which operate without human pilots, and each of the VTOL aircraft operates under the control of an associated onboard computer. The disclosed system further includes a ground control system which is configured to: receive a service request from a passenger for a transport service of the VTOL aircraft; assign one of the VTOL aircraft to the requesting passenger; process the service request to generate a flight task; transmit the flight task to the assigned VTOL aircraft. The onboard computer of the VTOL aircraft is configured to control a flight of the VTOL aircraft to transport the passenger from a pickup location to a destination location by air based on the flight task.

A passenger rail car includes a lower passenger compartment that includes a plurality of passenger seats. The passenger rail car also includes an upper passenger compartment that includes a plurality of passenger seats. A control cab for a rail car operator is elevated above the floor of the lower passenger compartment, and is located forward of the passenger seats and behind the crash energy management region. The front end of the passenger rail car may be slanted to provide a greater field of view for the rail car operator.

In a rope of a lifting device, particularly of a passenger transport elevator and / or freight transport elevator, the width of which rope is greater than the thickness in the transverse direction of the rope, which rope includes a load-bearing part in the longitudinal direction of the rope, which load-bearing part includes carbon-fiber reinforced, aramid-fiber reinforced and / or glass-fiber reinforced composite material in a polymer matrix, and which rope includes one or more optical fibers and / or fiber bundles in connection with the load-bearing part and the optical fiber and / or fiber bundle is laminated inside the load-bearing part and / or the optical fiber and / or fiber bundle is glued onto the surface of the load-bearing part and / or and that the optical fiber and / or fiber bundle is embedded or glued into the polymer envelope surrounding the load-bearing part, as well as to a condition monitoring method for the rope of a lifting device.

A conduit system for laying cables along the floor of a passenger cabin of an aircraft includes longitudinal and transverse cable guide elements respectively forming cable channels, and cable branch junctions at intersections of the longitudinal and transverse guide elements. Each guide element includes a lower part secured to the cabin floor, and an upper part secured (e.g. snap fitted) onto the lower part to cover the cable channel. The cable branch junction includes a lower section secured to the floor and covered by an upper section, and allows the cables to continue straight through the junction or to be deflected by 90° or by 180°. With this arrangement, a greater number and greater diameter of cables can be laid out with a minimal installation effort. The components of the system are easily adaptable to any required installation layout, while providing a continuous covered protected enclosure for the cables.

The invention relates to a public traffic information system for comprehensive management and broadcast and an operation control method thereof. The public traffic information system comprises the components of a vehicle scheduling system, a passenger identification electronic label generating system, a platform passenger flow statistics system, a user information issuing system, a passenger reservation system, a platform electronic board selecting and information upgrading system, an in-vehicle passenger information statistics system and a road condition real-time monitoring system; wherein the vehicle scheduling system, the passenger identification electronic label generating system, the platform passenger flow statics system, the user information issuing system, the passenger reservation system, the platform electronic board selecting and information upgrading system, the in-vehicle passenger information statistics system and the road condition real-time monitoring system are connected with a network node. According to the public traffic information platform and the operation control method thereof, information of the platform, the passenger and the buses can be obtained in real time through the public traffic information platform; furthermore the passenger transport capability of a vehicle is calculated through the vehicle scheduling system according to the invention; and whether vehicle arrangement is required at the platform is determined through the passenger transport capability of the vehicle, thereby reducing a passenger transport pressure. At aspects of actual users and bus scheduling, an integrated information broadcast platform and a bus scheduling method are presented, thereby facilitating public traffic network informatization construction.

The invention relates to a dispatching management system and a method for event emergency response of urban bus passenger transport. Methods of combining actual measurement data, event prediction model and algorithm as well as event real-time dispatching model and algorithm are comprehensively applied; geographical information technology, locating technology and modern communication technology are scientifically integrated; bus emergency dispatching technology developed through bus network intellectualization and multi-way coordinative dispatching technology of an urban bus passenger transport system are utilized; and an emergency coordinative dispatching model and the method are established by taking the networked bus passenger transport vehicle dispatching and operation dispatching management as a core and based on the key theories and methods for multi-way and multi-line intelligent coordinative dispatching of a urban bus and passenger transport system. The invention provides excellent theory, methods and technique supports for the real-time dispatching of urban bus events, effectively reduces the event recognition time, generates a quick real-time dispatching strategy, effectively eliminates the influences generated by the events, and resumes the driving plan so as to effectively improve the running efficiency and safety of buses.

The present invention belongs to the field of intelligent passenger train information management, and is especially intelligent passenger train digital information managing and intelligent passenger train digital information remote monitoring and managing system realized by means of computer control technology, phonetic synthesis technology, data compression technology, satellite positioning technology and radio data transmission technology. The system consists of on-train intelligent train information managing system, which consists of industrial control computer, printer, video camera, GPS satellite receiver, WLAN radio network card, GPRS and CDMA radio router, and sound card connected to loudspeaker; and intelligent passenger train digital information remote monitoring and managing system, which consists of server with control software and connected to Internet, computer and screen.

The rail transportation system of small vehicles is used to replace available underground railway and light rail system, and has small driverless vehicles running in closed rail. The system consists of vehicles, closed rails and stations, the vehicles are computerized automatic ones, the closed rails is provided with vehicle controlling equipment, and the vehicles are started from stations randomly for express service from station to station. The present invention has the advantages of great traffic amount similar to that of main stem transportation, personalized service, low construction investment and low running expensive. It may be used for both passenger transport and cargo transport, and municipal rail transportation network may be constructed.

The invention discloses a bus passenger movement statistics method and system based on stereo copy. It adopts stereo copy apparatus and algorithm. The stereo copy image collector is positioned on the top of the bus door to real time collect the passenger on-and-off image; the controller adopts stereo copy algorithm to process the two eyes image to obtain the image depth information and obtain the passenger head location, size and grey information by compounding the single eye image processing information; then the following part dose real time following with the passenger head information to obtain the number of the on-and-off passengers so as to obtain the passenger movement information.

The invention relates to a vehicular automatic driving system which is convenient for external installation and manual / automatic switching. No automatic driving system which is suitable for external installation on common vehicles and convenient to switch is provided in the prior art. Therefore, the vehicular automatic driving system comprises a switching device and an automatic driving system. The automatic driving and the manual driving of a vehicle can be switched by manipulating a switching device after the automatic driving system is installed on the vehicle. The vehicular automatic driving system is characterized in that the switching device comprises a control circuit with a plurality of contact switches which are arranged on a gripping part on a steering wheel, buttons of all contact switches are not pressed, and the switching device is switched into the vehicle into the automatic driving state; and the switching device can be triggered to switch into the manual driving state by pressing the button of any contact switch. The invention has the advantages of convenient switching, simple structure, convenient installation and low cost and can be widely suitable for long-distance passenger cars, long-distance freight cars, private cars and other landway motor-driven vehicles.

The invention discloses a line supervision control method based on a vehicle GPS terminal uploading location and speed information. By predetermining vehicle steering line and maximal line deviation value and highest speed limit value in an electronic geographical map, during steering process of the vehicle, the vehicle GPS terminal uploads location and speed information to the supervision center system which, by calculating present actual line deviation value and present steering speed value, judges whether or no the vehicle deviated from the line and is overspeed to supervise line of the vehicle. The supervision centre system provided by the invention realizes the line dynamic supervision, widely applied to various transport operating systems such as city bus, long-distance passenger transportation, logistic transportation and special vehicle and so on. The invention further provides a processing way for line section supervision, which enables the supervision method of the invention to supervise the different section agilely.

An expandable single use liquid containment vessel that can fit into restricted spaces such as the trunk or glove compartment of a passenger transport vehicle. The vessel contains a top and bottom wall integrally connected via an outer wall embodying accordion type pleats to allow for vessel compression and expansion. A single piece pouring nozzle is permanently attached to the containment vessel subsequent to introduction of a fluid the containment vessel's interior portion. One end of the filling nozzle secures the nozzle to the containment vessel. At the second end of the nozzle is an exiting orifice which has been dimensioned to preclude insertion therein of publicly accessible fueling nozzles commonly associated with motor vehicle refueling stations.

The invention described herein contains two aspects, usable together or separately, that address the needs in the art described above, namely a first aspect that relates to the provision of a transportable water purification system that can be contained on a passenger transport vehicle, and that can use, but does not require, continuous, real-time monitoring, and a second aspect that relates to the use of UV purification of the water as it is uploaded to the passenger transport vehicle after a single pass through the UV chamber.

Embodiments of the present invention provide boxes that are particularly useful in connection with trash collection and trash compaction. The boxes are designed as having a single-piece board construction with a strength that can contain mixed types of trash, including solids and liquids, and to effectively contain the trash during the pressure of a compaction process without tearing, splitting and / or leaking They are also designed to use a waterproof coating for adhering seams, reducing the extra step and expense of using a glue or an adhesive to secure the box seams. The trash compaction boxes provided herein are particularly useful on aircraft and other passenger transport vehicles, where weight and performance are of primary concern.

A compartment in a passenger transport aircraft is outfitted with functional elements that are adaptable for various uses or purposes. The compartment is bounded by walls defining dimensions approximately corresponding to a handicapped accessible toilet compartment or two standard aircraft toilet compartments. The functional elements include a seat that can be tilted up into a stowed position or tilted down into a seating position over a toilet, a table / seat that can be tilted up into a stowed position or tilted down into a table or seat position, a movable cover to selectively enclose and form a counter surface over a handwash basin, various storage spaces, etc. The functional elements can be selectively arranged as needed to configure the compartment as a handicapped accessible toilet compartment, a childcare or medical care room, an office work compartment, a detention cell, a smokers' compartment, etc.

The invention discloses a line detection method based on GPRS vehicle terminal, which has the functions of automatic bus station annunciator, trans station warning, line deviation warning, alarm for dangerous sections, reminding for subsection speed limiting and time-limited control, etc. The invention has the advantages of easy operation, low equipment maintenance cost, precise bus station annunciating with road information download in wireless way, which is widely applicable to professional transportation industries such as city public transportation, long-distance passenger transport and special traffic.

A travelling cable of an elevator, more particularly of a passenger transport elevator and / or freight transport elevator, includes a protective envelope, conductors for transmitting electrical energy and data between the elevator car and the elevator hoistway, and one or more load-bearing bearer parts of essentially the length of the travelling cable for fixing the travelling cable at its first end to the elevator car and at its second end to the elevator hoistway, and which bearer part includes glass-fiber reinforcements and / or aramid-fiber reinforcements and / or carbon-fiber reinforcements and / or polybenzoxazole-fiber reinforcements and / or polyethylene-fiber reinforcements and / or nylon-fiber reinforcements in a polymer matrix material. An elevator includes the travelling cable.

The invention relates to a high-performance environment-friendly polyurethane waterproofing paint and the preparing process, in particular to a polyurethane waterproofing paint applied to passenger transport railway line. The paint is prepared by mixing constituent A and constituent B by a certain ratio. The constituent A includes polyether polyols, the weight proportion of which is 64.5-74.5 percent; modifying liquefied methane diphenyl diisocyanate, the weight proportion of which is 25-35 percent; storage stabilizer, the weight proportion of which is 0.1-1 percent. The constituent B includes liquid filling, the weight proportion of which is 45-55percent; inorganic powder filling, the weight proportion of which is 30-40 percent; firming agent, the weight proportion of which is 10-20 percent. The paint of the invention uses the modifying liquefied MDI as the material of the constituent A, ensures the production process to be more environment-friendly, ensures the operation to be more simple, and can save more cost, can meet the indexes of high strength and high percentage elongation as the paints is obtained.

The invention provides an automatic access management method and a control device for a high-speed train. The method comprises the following steps: generating an access sequence according to the train operation plan; judging whether the train meets the access handling condition according to the access sequence when the train approaches a station; if yes, judging whether the access handling time of the train is in conflict with other trains; if no conflicts, judging whether the train meets the safety control and the constraint conditions of the access handling; and if yes, triggering the access management process of the train. According to the invention, the train operation plan of a dispatching control central system is comprehensively drawn into consideration, the conditions before triggering the access management process are automatically examined in the aspects of both time and space, and automatic access management of the train running at high speed is realized without the need of manual operation. The automatic access management method is particularly suitable for quick displacement of high-speed trains on a passenger special line, and is compatible with common passenger and goods trains on the existing line in a degrading manner.

In some locations, such as airports, drivers that provide passenger transport must wait a significant distance away from the pickup location. To reduce the delay between a passenger requesting a ride and being picked up, drivers are pre-dispatched before being assigned to specific passengers. The demand for a future time period is predicted and the number of drivers that should be pre-dispatched to meet that demand is estimated. The estimated number of drivers is sent pre-dispatch instruction indicating they should leave the waiting area and head towards the pickup location.

Embodiments of the present invention provide boxes that are particularly useful in connection with trash collection and trash compaction. The boxes are designed as having a single-piece board construction with a strength that can contain mixed types of trash, including solids and liquids, and to effectively contain the trash during the pressure of a compaction process without tearing, splitting and / or leaking. They are also designed to use a waterproof coating for adhering seams, reducing the extra step and expense of using a glue or an adhesive to secure the box seams. The trash compaction boxes provided herein are particularly useful on aircraft and other passenger transport vehicles, where weight and performance are of primary concern.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that provides a cohesive, harmonized look to aircraft galleys and other aircraft areas. The system allows airlines to easily change the decorative front fascia of galley (and other) airline components, even while the components are installed on the aircraft. The replacement is accomplished without the use of tools or extensive manual effort by providing replaceable and interchangeable panels for use on aircraft or other passenger transport vehicles or vessels.

The invention provides emulsified asphalt for a ballastless slab track in a severe cold region and a preparation method thereof. The emulsified asphalt comprises the following ingredients by mass portion: 55-65 portions of matrix asphalt or modified asphalt, 35-45 portions of water, 0.1-1.0 portion of stabilizer, 0-1.0 portion of thickening agent, 0-2.0 portions of pH regulator, 0.1-1.5 portions of interfacial modifier, 0.6-1.8 portions of cationic emulsifier, 0.4-1.2 portions of non-ionic emulsifier, 0-1.0 portion of optional amphoteric ionic emulsifier and 0-0.6 portion of mineral emulsifier, wherein the emulsifier amounts to 1.0-4.0 portions. The emulsified asphalt has the advantages of high stability, good thermal adaptability, wide material adaptability, strong adhesive force with aggregate and the like, does not significantly influence the hydration of cement after the emulsified asphalt is mixed with the cement and sand, and is suitable for the ballastless slab track, particularly the ballastless slab tracks of CRTSI type high speed railways, passenger transport lines and interurban railways in the severe cold region.

The invention provides an electronic ticket system for railways, comprising an electronic ticket booking and changing subsystem, wherein a booking module is used for receiving booking information and personnel identity information input by a user via an intermediary to generate a corresponding electronic ticket; certification information corresponding to the electronic ticket is returned; the electronic ticket information is stored in an electronic ticket processing server; the electronic ticket processing server is used for updating the state of the electronic ticket information and sending the electronic ticket information to a station checking-in subsystem and a train checking-in subsystem according to the appointed time; the station checking-in subsystem and the train checking-in subsystem are used for obtaining the electronic media certificate information of the user; and the user validity is verified according to the electronic ticket information. According to the electronic ticket system for railways provided by the invention, the electronic ticket serves as a transportation and settlement means, thereby bringing more benefits for railway passenger transport departments andpassengers, and bringing more selection and convenience for passengers.

The invention discloses a system and method for evaluating the comprehensive quality of a long-distance passenger transportation driver. The method comprises dark adaptation detection, dynamic sight detection, depth perception detection, speed sensing detection, attention focusing detection, attention distribution detection, attention range detection, strain capacity detection, field dependence degree detection and the like of the long-distance passenger transportation driver during traveling. Whether the long-distance passenger transportation driver has the quality of avoiding traffic problems to the maximum degree during long-distance traveling is judged with the eleven detection items. Furthermore, data analysis can also be conducted through a set of comprehensive detection standards combined with the data values of the eleven detection items with the kernel principle component analysis method to obtain comprehensive evaluation indices, so that comprehensive index evaluation is conducted on whether the long-distance passenger transportation driver is suitable for long-distance driving.