Moving walkway
Overview
American English
American English is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States. Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States....
) (colloquially sometimes travelator, horizontal escalator, walkalator, autowalk, movator, people mover,meatgrinder,parallel universe escalator,cheese grater,fire hazard) is a slow moving conveyor mechanism that transport
Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...
s people, across a horizontal or inclined plane, over a short to medium distance.
