THE VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION HANDBOOK -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 The Essentials of Elevatoring -- 2 The Basis of Elevatoring a Building -- 3 Passenger Traffic Requirements -- 4 IncomingTraffic -- 5 Two-Way Traffic -- 6 Outgoing Traffic -- 7 Elevator Operation and Control -- 8 Space and Physical Requirements -- 9 Escalators and Moving Walks -- 10 Elevatoring Commercial Buildings -- 11 Elevatoring Residential Buildings -- 12 Elevatoring Institutional Buildings -- 13 Service and Freight Elevators -- 14 Nonconventional Elevators, Special Applications, and Environmental Considerations -- 15 Automated Materials-Handling Systems -- 16 Codes and Standards -- 17 Elevator Specifying and Contracting -- 18 Economics, Maintenance, and Modernization -- 19 Traffic Studies and Performance Evaluation Using Simulation -- 20 The Changing Modes of Horizontal and Vertical Transportation -- Appendix: Literature on Elevators and Escalators -- Index of Tables and Charts -- Index of Examples -- Subject Index.