Rope-free and horizontal elevators are now a reality. German company thyssenkrupp trialled the new system named "MULTI" in a 246-metre high tower in Rottweil. They developed a system using linear ...
Singapore will have an autonomous electric transit system on the road by the end of this year. The country’s SMRT public transit system announced a partnership today with the Dutch firm 2getthere for ...
If German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp has its way, we may soon be living in a world full of Wonkavators. The company claims its technology has the potential to let elevators move horizontally as ...
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - December 01, 2014) - ThyssenKrupp, a global technologies and materials group, unveiled its new MULTI elevator technology, enabling the vertical and horizontal operation of ...
German tech company ThyssenKrupp envisions a future where self-propelled elevators can travel both horizontally and vertically along skyscrapers. Using linear motor technology similar to that seen in ...
When you have skyscraper density, as in downtowns and most of Manhattan, there is much greater density of retail streets, and everybody is close to neighborhood activity and shopping. You just step ...
Elevators and escalators get little fanfare in the commercial development space, but some new technology may make you sit up and pay attention. From cableless elevators that go every which way, to ...
There’s one form of transportation that gets almost no press in the self-driving car and Hyperloop era: the lowly (and highly) elevator. Without it, there’d be no modern cities, and its evolution ...