Hi everyone!!
I came across this article in news. It is very interesting in only one term, does this actually needs any research to reach this conclusion?? and even more do you actually need to publish this as science and technology news????
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5836445/Using-the-airport-moving-walkways-actually-slows-you-down.html
That is so simple to notice at airport. The only reason people use moving walkway is because they don't want to walk. There are loads of passengers who just walk to the desired destination, bcas they know that moving walkway is slower!!! Common Sense!!!
I have always questioned the utility of moving walkways and having used it the only logic to have it at airport is for convenience not speed. The standards say that if the passengers need to walk for more than 300-400 odd meters which is very normal for a medium to big airport, they need to be assisted so that is how the architects assist passenger- moving walkways!!!
I think the person who did the above research should have spent his time on what are the other ways possible and as convenient and less infrastructure hungry for the purpose quoted above!!
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Thursday, 9 July 2009
New Product I came across this week
Hi all,
I was browsing through various profiles and discussion on LinkedIN and came across this one very interesting product which I was not aware. It is basically dependent on the the bluetooth of your mobile phone. Once the system is installed on your airport which basically is a bluetooth gateway. This than keeps track of the length of queue and dwell time of passengers at key points in airport. Interesting isn't it??
That means if I have this at my airport it is like a real life simulation were you can get results similar to the various simulation models, that is very interesting because if the passenger queuing and dwell times could than be linked to the passenger profiles and you can get a perfect data for the simulation model and you can use it for design and development on other airports. The only thing is does this thing require passenger acknowledgement or is passenger aware that he/she is being tracked. Is it not intruding privacy?? Just wondering.
I than searched for similar products on Google and wow there are many others that provide similar capability!! This sounds cool tool for airport planners like us, atleast very important to create more data and more statisitics!! It is lot of fun!!!
The link to the site is http://www.blipsystems.com/. Have a look and let me know your thought as well!!
Cheers!!
I was browsing through various profiles and discussion on LinkedIN and came across this one very interesting product which I was not aware. It is basically dependent on the the bluetooth of your mobile phone. Once the system is installed on your airport which basically is a bluetooth gateway. This than keeps track of the length of queue and dwell time of passengers at key points in airport. Interesting isn't it??
That means if I have this at my airport it is like a real life simulation were you can get results similar to the various simulation models, that is very interesting because if the passenger queuing and dwell times could than be linked to the passenger profiles and you can get a perfect data for the simulation model and you can use it for design and development on other airports. The only thing is does this thing require passenger acknowledgement or is passenger aware that he/she is being tracked. Is it not intruding privacy?? Just wondering.
I than searched for similar products on Google and wow there are many others that provide similar capability!! This sounds cool tool for airport planners like us, atleast very important to create more data and more statisitics!! It is lot of fun!!!
The link to the site is http://www.blipsystems.com/. Have a look and let me know your thought as well!!
Cheers!!
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