Deformable mesh moving belt as an accelerating-decelerating device. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1972.

Problems of people mover systems in highly congested areas such as densely populated centers of major cities are discussed. It is stated, that, although it is difficult to eliminate all such discontinuities completely, it is possible via technique to achieve a reasonable final speed with only a single velocity-interface joint involving a discrete speed change of 1.5 to 2.5 mph. In the forward direction only, as with an escalator.