The drive of a fast moving footway with accelerating segment at entry and the slowing down segment at exit

In the paper a fast autowalk with a walk-on accelerating segment and a walk-off slowing down segment for transport of both people and loading has been presented. The solution suggested in the paper ensures that its efficiency can reach a dozen or so thousand people per hour on a route of several hundred metres. In comparison with similar existing autowalks, this one has the speed of a high-speed segment around 8-10 times higher in relation with the safe speed of the first segment to be walked on.