Patent ID: 6748703
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: E01F,E04H,Y10S

Abstract:
An elongate waiting and boarding-disembarking station designed to extend longitudinally along and be located directly adjacent a border between one of a sidewalk (2) and a platform and one of a street and a track (3) for an urban passenger transport vehicle (4), the waiting and boarding-disembarking station extending substantially parallel to and directly along the border between one of the sidewalk (2) and the platform and one of the street and the track (3) for providing shelter for at least one passenger waiting to board the urban passenger transport vehicle (4), the waiting and boarding-disembarking station comprising a metal shell (5) supporting at least one lateral wall panel (8) and at least one roof panel (12) for defining a partially enclosed covered space (7):wherein at the lateral wall panel (8) is a longitudinal separating wall (29) provided along a front of the waiting and boarding-disembarking station which is designed to be positioned so as to extend substantially parallel to and directly along the border between one of the sidewalk (2) and the platform and one of the street and the track (3), the longitudinal separating wall (29) has an opening therein which forms a vehicle access threshold (22) for passenger use, and the longitudinal separating wall (29) forms a barrier which separates, except for the one opening, the front surface of the station from one of the street and the track (3); the waiting and boarding-disembarking station, when the front surface of the waiting and boarding-disembarking station is positioned directly adjacent the border between one of a sidewalk (2) and a platform and one of a street and a track (3), prohibits passenger traffic between the longitudinal wall (29) of waiting and boarding-disembarking station and one of the street and the track (3); a portion of the covered space (7), adjacent the longitudinal separating wall (29), forms a waiting area which protects at least one waiting passenger from one of the street and the track (3); and the waiting and boarding-disembarking station is at least partially open along at least one other surface, other than the front surface, which allows people traveling along one of the sidewalk (2) and the platform to enter and exit from the waiting and boarding-disembarking station.