Are these really called moving sidewalks in the US? It's such an ugly term. Mintguy 21:47 Dec 16, 2002 (UTC)
- Yes. I'm rather curious what your standard of terminological beauty is, though... ;) --Brion
Some random information on the naming of these things:
Trav-O-Lator is a (registered) trademark of the Otis Elevator Company in both the US and the UK. That presumably has implications for the terms "travolator" and probably "travelator".
KONE and Fujitec use the term "autowalk"
CNIM uses the term "moving walkway", which seems to be a reasonably generic and international term.
My Concise Oxford Dictionary (8th ed, 1990) only gives "moving pavement" of the obvious terms. My Collins' Concise Dictionary (5th ed, 2001) doesn't give any of them. Both are British dictionaries, obviously.
Google counts:
- "moving walkway" 3890
- "moving sidewalk" 3240
- travelator 1970
- autowalk 1430, mostly with other meanings.
- Trav-O-Lator 842
- "moving pavement" 302
- travolator 172
--rbrwr
And while I'm at it, a Google search for "eclinator" only returns Wikipedia pages. Patrick asked Boarshevik about this already, without getting a reply, as far as I can tell. --rbrwr
- Indeed no reply, I removed it. - Patrick 20:35 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Eclinator was made by combining the word escalator with incline. I didn't know about Patrick's question because I wasn't that familar with the Talk pages. --Boarshevik 14:06 08 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks for being honest with us, Boarshevik :) Martin
Fine as this article is in itself, I propose that it be merged into escalator because most content is relevant to both. For example the history and mechanism are essentially the same. Moreover, both articles have an independently-grown section on escalator accidents/injuries, and on which side (left or right) to stand on in various places: these would each be better combined into one stronger section.
And from the escalator article you'd never think to go to moving sidewalk for more information. Comments? Blotwell 05:54, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- If the merged article were carefully written, I think this would be a good idea...
- Using essentially the same technology (a series of moving metal steps driven by an electric motor), escalators and moving sidewalks both allow the rapid movement of a large volume of people. Escalators convey the people up and down while moving sidewalks convey them across large horizontal distances. Unlike elevators, trams, and other similar devices that move people in discrete car-fulls, escalators and moving sidewalks are essentially a continuous process, eliminating the delays associated with queuing for the cars. ...
- (You probably get my idea.)
- Atlant 11:23, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)