Horizontal Elevators

Horizontal elevators

Horizontal elevators or conveyors are Elevators that moves horizontally, instead of the usual vertical transition. Common examples of these are railroad transportations and walkalators.

Benefits

• Economic Development: The number of potential customers for every business within walking distance of the horizontal elevator will increase by 10 fold or more.

• Consumer Patterns: The number of retail, service, or entertainment choices available from every parking space within walking distance of a horizontal elevator will also increase by 10 fold or more.

• Urban Design: The number of daily or hourly parking spaces needed within core business districts can be reduced to virtually zero.

• Downtown Traffic Congestion: The number of daily and hourly parking spaces serving core business districts can be dramatically increased without adding cars and traffic congestion to core business districts. Removing daily and hourly parking from core areas will greatly reduce congestion, noise, and exhaust pollution.

• Downtown Livability: Urban residents within walking distance of a horizontal elevator will be able to leave their car parked under their apartment building for days on end.

• Commuter Transit and Regional Road Congestion: The decision between getting in a car versus getting on commuter transit is influenced as much by what's available at the end of the trip, as by the trip itself. A ride on light-rail may be easier than a grid-locked morning commute-but, after stepping off the light-rail platform, commuters are confined to the choices within their limited pedestrian access bubble. Stretching that bubble with a linked network of horizontal elevators will make the commuter transit decision more attractive -and decrease regional road congestion.

• Competition for Urban Sprawl: An urban business district equipped with horizontal elevators will provide daily visitors with a one-stop-shopping experience far superior to the most extravagant super-mall. From a single, easy-to-find parking space, a linked network of horizontal elevators will provide the visitor not only with a greater mix of retail and entertainment choices-but also the civic, cultural and educational choices which are typically absent from suburban venues.