Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Passenger bus body
Patent
1981-12-23
1984-07-03
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Passenger bus body
180140, 244137R, B62D 3102
Patent
active
044575548
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a method for dispatching air passengers between their arrival in an arrival zone and the boarding of an airplane, with check-in baggage checking and transportation from the arrival zone to an aircraft standing at the ramp, and an airport installation and vehicle suitable therefor.
Air passengers are presently dispatched so that the air passengers arrive at an arrival zone at the airport building and walk with their luggage through the airport building until they arrive at the check-in window or the baggage check-in counter. Even these two facilities may be at a distance from each other. Depending on the design of the airport, passengers are given a boarding pass at the check-in window which is surrendered at the entrance to the waiting room. In more modern airports, the check-in window is directly at the entrance of the waiting room. After passing through security checks, the air passengers remain in the waiting room for a certain time and are then loaded into buses and driven to airplanes waiting at the ramp or pass via telescopically extendable, covered walkways directly from the waiting room to an aircraft which has been taxied close to the waiting room building. In the meantime, baggage is being loaded on baggage vehicles, is taken to the aircraft and is unloaded there again and loaded into the aircraft.
All these operations require separate technical facilities and premises, all of which leads to the situation that modern airport installations require an enormous amount of money and that furthermore, boarding an aircraft is a time-consuming and disagreeable activity as compared, for instance, to boarding a train.
It, thus, is an object of the present invention to accelerate and simplify the dispatching procedure.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention, this problem is solved by the provision that the air passengers are conducted, after they arrive in the arrival zone, together with their baggage, to a vehicle which contains the facilities for checking-in and receiving the baggage; and the check-in and, if required, the security checks take place in the vehicle which transports the air passengers directly to the aircraft.
This method is a departure from the customary dispatch, in which the air passengers pass through different stations, which may be far apart, in a stationary airport building. All these stations or facilities are relocated into the vehicle, so that the air passenger, for normal dispatch, does not enter the airport building at all any more. The vehicle does not make the airport building completely unnecessary; for an extended stay at the airport which occurs due to waiting times when changing airplanes or by similar circumstances, suitable facilities will have to be provided as before. The same applies to the technical facilities which are still provided in an airport apart from those for dispatch of passengers. The long walks in the conventional airport building, however, are eliminated because the required processes take place, in compressed form, in the vehicle which contains windows for checking-in and the necessary electronic facility for checking and possibly changing of reservations, as well as cabins and equipment for security checks.
The separation of the passenger from his baggage is eliminated, which in the conventional airport installation, required extensive organizational arrangements as well as in many cases, time-consuming intermediate processes as well as identification of the baggage to be loaded directly at the aircraft in order to prevent pieces of luggage containing bombs from being smuggled into the aircraft. With the present invention, the air passenger and the baggage carried by him remain together from the time of arrival at the airport until boarding of the airplane.
The check-in and possibly, the security checks can be performed during the waiting time of the vehicle which is necessary for the boarding of the air passengers in the arrival zone, during its travel from the arrival zon
REFERENCES:
patent: 3903979 (1975-09-01), Perrotin
patent: 4181347 (1980-01-01), Clark
patent: 4269429 (1981-05-01), Eichstadt
Fuisz Georg
Szabo Lyubomir
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