Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Düşey Transport Sistemleri
	English	Vertical Transportation Systems
Course Code	MKS 540	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Cevat Erdem İmrak
Course Objectives		It is the design of the elevator facilities, escalators and other vertical transports used and the mechanisms and elements related to them in order to ensure the transportation of human traffic in closed spaces and to ensure that the loads are transported in vertical direction.
Course Description		Analysis of the demand for vertical transport systems. Human traffic mobility and traffic analysis in indoor spaces. Mechanical elevator design principles and structures of components. Hydraulic elevator constructions. Constructions of escalators and bands. APM systems.
Course Outcomes		1. Make elevator traffic analysis 2. Selection of suitable vertical transport systems 3. Design of vertical transfer systems 4. Construction of vertical transport systems mechanisms and elements
Pre-requisite(s)		N/A
Required Facilities		N/A
Other		N/A
Textbook		E.İmrak & İ.Gerdemeli, Asansörler ve Yürüyen Merdivenler,Birsen Yay, 2000 http://www.transport.itu.edu.tr/dersler/lisansustudersleri/mks540
Other References		L. Janovsky, Elevator Mechanical Design, Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1993. G.R.Strakosch, Vertical Transportation: Elevators and Escalators, John Wiley&Sons, 1990. G.C.Barney, S.M Dos Santos, Elevator Traffic Analysis, Design and Control, Peter Per. Ltd. 1992 G.C. Barney, Elevator Traffic Handbook, Spon Press, 2003 PH.Day, Transportation Systems in Buildings, CIBSE Publ., 2000.

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