Moving Walkway

Synonyms / Other Terms Used

Moving Sidewalk, People-mover, Autowalk, Travelator

Category

Public Facilities, Public Services, Travel, Transport Facilities

Message / Function

For notice in general and to indicate the location of a public moving walkway

	Source	Description
	BS 8501:2002	Side view of two human figures on moving walkway
	ISO 7001	Side view of two human figures on moving walkway
	CNIS	Side view of human figure on moving walkway
	Aldric Rodríguez	Side view of two human figures on moving walkway, arrow
	Noun Project	Side view of human figure walking on moving walkway
	MTA	Side view of human figure walking at start of moving walkway, conveyor elements as arrows indicating direction of movement
	Pierce	Side view of human figure walking at start of moving walkway, conveyor elements as dashed line, ending in arrow indicating direction of movement

Note: Some of the examples shown above were mirrored horizontally to contrast differences.

Discussion

The collection above illustrates that basically one concept is dominating: the side view of one or two human figures on a moving walkway. In all pictograms found also some directional information is part of the renderings found.

In our research we discovered that there is only very limited test data available:

With about 91 % correct responses among Chinese respondents the pictogram of the Chinese standard GB/T 10001.1-2012, Public Information Graphical Symbols, labeled CNIS in the table above, performed well enough in a Comprehension Test to recommend this concept, as it fulfilled relevant ISO and ANSI requirements (An & Chan, 2017).

Recommendations

MovingWalkway

Based on these test results we recommend the use of a pictogram similar to the Chinese variant displayed here.

As data from research available is limited to one pictogram we recommend to compare this variant with ISO 7001 Public Information Symbol PI PF 032, the MTA pictogram as well as the variant from Pierce shown in the table above, on basis of a Comprehension Test to identify which concept works best. Furthermore we suggest to attempt developing additional pictogram variants without any directional elements and include these in the testing program.

Tests of pictograms of referent Moving Walkway

An, D. & Chan, E.H.W. (2017): Investigating the Comprehension of Public Symbols for Wayfinding in Transit Hubs in China. In: Rau, PL. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. CCD 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10281. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57931-3_24