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How is snow, ice or debris kept from interfering with operations? |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 10 February 2007 |
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The Taxi 2000 guideway is a truss structure with covers over the sides and part of the top and bottom. There is a six-inch-wide slot at the top for the vehicle's vertical chassis to pass through, and an eight-inch-wide slot at the bottom to permit ice, snow, rain, or debris to fall through. A pair of 7.5-inch-wide running surfaces (angle sections) inside the guideway near the bottom support the main wheels and are spaced six inches apart to permit anything that may drop in the top to pass through. Running vehicles continuously during snow or ice storms will usually be sufficient to clear the running surfaces; but we have designed and tested a plow that, if necessary, will be installed on vehicles to deflect anything that lands on one of the running surfaces down into the slot between. A maintenance vehicle will occasionally inspect the interior of the guideway with a television camera and will be equipped to remove any foreign material.
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